Note 271 — XLVI. THE SISTERS.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
This is another curious phase of Chinese superstition, namely, that each individual is so constituted by nature as to be able to absorb only a given quantity of good fortune and no more, any superfluity of luck doing actual harm to the person on whom it falls. return to footnote anchor 271 return to footnote anchor 344 return to footnote anchor 351