The Bitter Tea of General Yen
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I'm just as much
interested in you.

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Oh. I am deeply flattered.
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But not deeply moved.
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Can't you forgive her?
She's only a child.

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You can always do so much more
with mercy than you can with murder.

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Why don't you give her
another chance?

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Oh, I know you feel that she has deceived
you and sold information to your enemies,

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perhaps even been unfaithful
to you. All that's dreadful.

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And if it's true, you have a certain
justification in wanting to crush her.

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But I want you to think of all
those things and then forgive her.

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I don't know how you feel
about Mah-Li.

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I mean, whether you love
her as... Well, as a lover.

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But that's of no importance.
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I want you to see the beauty
of giving love where it isn't merited.

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Any man can give love where he's sure
it's returned. That isn't love at all.

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But to give love
with no thought of merit,

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no thought of return,
no thought of gratitude even.

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That's ordinarily
the privilege of God.

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And now it's your privilege.
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Oh, general, with all you have within
you, your superior brain, your culture,

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how can you be so blind
to spiritual greatness?

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Do this thing I ask you.
Do it for me.

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Do it even blindly if you must,
and I promise you, I'm so sure of it,

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I promise you that for
the first time in your life

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you'll know what
real happiness is.

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You'll know that I...
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I have one of my own.
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That's what you said
to me that day.

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You must be sincere,
Miss Davis.

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I don't believe a word you say.
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But when you ask me like that,
I forget I am General Yen.

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Then you won't have her killed?
But I ask myself,

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what do you get out of it?
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You've hardly known her
more than a few days,

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and still you act as if she were
of your own flesh and blood.

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She is. We're all of
one flesh and blood.


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