The Bitter Tea of General Yen
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1:11:14
May I offer you
some champagne?

1:11:17
May I?
1:11:24
In the days of our greatest
civilisation, we drank to excess.

1:11:29
In fact, one of my ancestors,
a very famous poet,

1:11:32
was drowned in an attempt to
catch the moon in the Yellow River.

1:11:42
Oh.
1:11:44
This portrait is of his wife, who was
made very unhappy by his death.

1:11:48
She left a very famous
collection of swords.

1:11:52
I have them in my bedroom.
May I show them to you?

1:11:54
Oh, please.
Why do you torture me?

1:12:18
I am afraid you misunderstood
my purpose in sending for you.

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I'm not altogether a fool.
1:12:26
You didn't think I meant
the conventional thing, did you?

1:12:29
Didn't you?
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Do you think General Yen could accept
anything that the heart did not freely give?

1:12:39
Oh, no.
1:12:41
That opportunity has been open
to me ever since you came here.

1:12:50
It was your life you put up
as a forfeit for Mah-Li's loyalty.

1:12:57
My life?
Yes.

1:12:59
What else did
you think it meant?


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