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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: procured for her father-in-law. She explained that she had
bought her from a poor country family for three hundred and fifty
ounces of silver.
"Don't you think it is cruel for parents to sell their daughters
in this way?" I asked.
"Perhaps," she answered. "But with the money they received for
her, they can buy land enough to furnish them a good support all
their life. She will always have rich food, fine clothing and an
easy time, with nothing to do but enjoy herself, while if she had
remained at home she must have married some poor man who might or
might not have treated her well, and for whom she would have to
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