Note 157 — XXIV. MISS A-PAO; OR, PERSEVERANCE REWARDED.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
The medium, without whose good offices no marriage can be arranged. Generally, but not always, a woman.
This system of go-betweens is not confined to matrimonial engagements. No servant ever offers himself for a place; he invariably employs some one to introduce him. So also in mercantile transactions the broker almost invariably appears upon the scene. return to text