第四百三十三篇第四百三十三篇Story Four Hundred and Thirty-Three

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Story Four Hundred and Thirty-Three · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Fox Girl

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a lonely wooded mountainside at dusk, a smiling young woman with one foot in a hollow and one hand on the top of a round shoulder-high wall reaches back to a young scholar in a soft cap, who steps up from outside with his head tipped back, while a two-storey pavilion with upturned eaves rises behind the wall among great old trees, with brambles and rocks in the foreground and low peaks far off.