So, if Lands be given to Father and Son, and to the heirs of their two bodies begotten, the remainder over in fee, and afterwards the Father dieth without any Iſſue but the Son, and afterwards the Son dieth without Iſſue, and a Stranger abateth, he in the remainder ſhall have one Formedon in the remainder, although the Eſtate tails were ſeveral, […]

For Yen Hsüeh-mei, the Shanghai-bred nurse, life in northern Hupei must have represented a striking change. Lao-ho-k'ou was the headquarters of General Li Tsung-jen, commander of the Fifth War Area.…But physical privation was nearly universal and in many ways Lao-ho-k'ou was an interesting place to be. The Political Department of the Fifth War Area operated a Japanese language school there, with two hundred Chinese students in 1939. The classes were conducted by members of the Korean Volunteer unit and by Japanese prisoners of war who were sent to Lao-ho-k'ou for indoctrination. Lao-ho-k'ou was also the site of six industrial cooperatives which employed refugees in a variety of trades.

We'll be looking more at the 'split attraction model' of sexuality in the next chapter, and how romantic attraction and sexual attraction can be different for different people.

Young Hurrell turned them on the right; the officer on the polo pony and Mr. Westall, between them, dissected a bullfinch on the left, but the ditch and the briars took toll of the former.