I doubted not but my entreaties would have this effect on your ductile heart ; but to take advantage of your grateful sorrow for a departing friend, would be to engrave her on your memory, with the bitter accompanyment of remindless grief, without hope of change, but the awful one that will reunite us.

Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas. In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs.

These are not necessarily melancholy days; they are very worky, playful, enjoyable ones to those who keep well and busy.

Well, I can't get angry, okay? I mean, I have a tendency to internalize. I can't express anger. That's one of the problems I have—I grow a tumor instead.