Note 346 — LXI. THE HUSBAND PUNISHED.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
The virtuous conduct of any individual will result not only in happiness and prosperity to himself, but a certain quantity of these will descend to his posterity, unless, as in the present case, there is one among them whose personal wickedness neutralizes any benefits that would otherwise accrue therefrom. Here we have an instance where the crimes of a descendant still left a balance of good fortune surviving from the accumulated virtue of generations. return to footnote anchor 346 return to footnote anchor 456 return to footnote anchor 617