  Wherein Yen Kuei Ping turns off from the Big Horse Street to Wherein there is a wedding and Kuei Ping becomes a member of the family of Chia Wherein a son is born and there is great rejoicing Wherein shadows throw their length across the tidy courtyard Wherein there is deepening sorrow Wherein the heart of a woman is occupied with one desire Wherein Kuei Ping prepares for a pilgrimage Wherein there is patience and tenderness and understanding and a return to a little home village Wherein twenty-seven slow years are added one upon another Wherein the narrator becomes Kuei Ping's pupil and is filled Title: The Street of Precious Pearls Author: Nora Waln Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by MWS, David E. Brown, |
| Note: | Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/streetofprecious00waln |
The Street
of Precious Pearls
by
Nora Waln
NEW YORK
THE WOMANS PRESS
1921
Copyright, 1921, by
National Board of Young Womens Christian Associations
of the United States of America
To Grace Coppock, who first encouraged me to go into the Far East, I owe deep gratitude.
From the women of China I have learned that World Fellowship is not alone an intellectual concept but a natural law in accordance with which the hearts of all women throb to the same rhythmic beat of the Universe.
To the women of America I dedicate this story of the life of my Chinese friend and teacher: it is as accurate as she with her small store of English words, and I with my limited knowledge of her language could make it.