The good earth by Buck Pearl S & Buck Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) 1892-1973

Author:Buck, Pearl S & Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NA
Publisher: [London] : Albatross
Published: 1947-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

'I do not know anything—teach me!'

And she taught mm.

Now Wang Lung became sick with the sickness which is greater than any a man can have. He had suffered under labour in the sun and he had suffered under the dry icy winds of the bitter desert and he had suffered from star- I vation when the fields would not bear and he had suffered 1 from the despair of labouring without hope upon the | streets of a southern city. But under none of these did he suffer as he now did under this slight girl's hand.

Every day he went to the tea-shop; every evening he waited until she would receive him, and every night he went in to her. Each night he went in and each night again he was the country fellow who knew nothing, trembling at the door, sitting stiffly beside her, waiting for her signal of laughter, and then fevered, filled with a sickened hunger, he followed slavishly, bit by bit, her unfolding, until the moment of crisis, when, like a flower that is ripe for plucking, she was willing that he should grasp her wholly.

Yet never could he grasp her wholly, and this it was which kept him fevered and thirsty, even if she gave him HeTwill of her. When O-lan had come to his house it was health to his flesh and he lusted for her robustly as a beast for its mate, and he took her and was satisfied and he forgot her and did his work content. But there was no such content now in his love for this girl, and there was no health in her for him. At night when she would have no more of him, pushing him out of the door petulantly, with her small hands suddenly strong on his should.ers, his silver thrust into her bosom, he went away hungry as he came. It was as though a man, dying of thirst, drank the salt water of the sea, which though it is water, yet dries his blood into thirst and yet greater thirst so that in the end he dies, maddened by his very drinking. He went in to her and he had his will of her again and again and he came away unsatisfied.

All during the hot summer Wang Lung loved thus this girl. He knew nothing of her, whence she came or what she was; when they were together he said not a score of

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