You had better take the other piece,' he said. 'You may as well make his coat of a small piece of silk. After all, he is the first.' She did not at once take the money, but she stood looking at it, her face motionless. Then she said in a whisper: "It is the first time I have had silver money in my hand.' Suddenly she took it and closed it in her hand and hurried into the bedroom. Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver - out of