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-"OPPORTUNITIES should be embraced with both hands," began Tung Lai Luk sententiously. "Now, in this land of paddy-fields there are few opportunities to embrace, and, if there are few opportunities, it is not to be expected that a boy like my nephew should prosper as is his undoubted right." He paused. "In the city, however, it is different. There, we find men of all sorts, and opportunities as many and as varied as the men. Do you not agree with me, my sister?"
Ming Nai saw that, given time, he would come to the point, so she said: "You are as right as may be."