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means to make me happy. But I don’t trust him. You

Stinking Old Ninths all have glib tongues. What you

say is one thing and what you do is another. You all

play a lot of tricks. He just wants to cheat me into his

chest. I don’t want to be taken in. So I have turned

him down resolutely. But he has a better

understanding of the dirty language than you do.”

My mouth was wide open and I could not utter a

word.

Feeling immensely triumphant, she said, “I’ll

read you one more letter. This letter is from a

worker.” She took out another letter and began to

read it.

“‘I’m from a poor peasant family. My family has

been poor for three generations. I’m a member of the

working class. We are the leading class. Chairman

Mao said we must lead everything. He gave us the

highest honour. He put us at the top of the social

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