| 1 | For a few moments neither of them spoke, and the silence was broken only by the sound of the concubine clearing her throat in the room above. | |
| 2 | "Rot your tongue! " said Lota. "Our master has no concubines. That young woman is his adopted daughter and a widow. " | |
| 3 | The innkeeper had two concubines. One of them was very beautiful; one of them was very ugly. | |
| 4 | In the olden days before the communists took over, the way for a man to show his prestige and wealth was to take a mistress. | |
| 5 | All the Big Shots of the Nanking government also came here to have medical treatment, and sometimes took away a nurse to become a new wife. |
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