How was it to be anticipated that at the late age of forty, he should be brought so low by a little nun so to feel that he was fluttering, fluttering, fluttering.
B.
Who could possibly have foreseen that just as he was approaching the age when, like Confucius, he shold have "stood firm", Ah Q would be so subverted by a young Buddist nun that he would go around walking on air.Note: In a well-known passage of The ects Confucius says, At thirty, I stood firm".