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The Story of Wong T'sin and the Willow Plate Embellishment Wong Ts ' in , the rich porcelain maker , was ill at ease within himself . He had partaken of his customary midday meal , flavoured the repast by unsealing a jar of matured wine , consumed a little fruit , a few sweetmeats and half a dozen cups of unapproachable tea , and then retired to an inner chamber to contemplate philosophically from the reposeful attitude of a reclining couch . But upon this occasion the merchant did not contemplate restfully . He paced the floor in deep dejection and when he did use the couch at all it was to roll upon it in a sudden access of internal pain . The cause of his distress was well known to the unhappy person thus concerned , nor did it lessen the pangs of his emotion that it arose entirely from his own ill-considered action .