La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 26
lepassed with European occupants, and even in this tremen-dous heat ladies rode out on horseback. But the humanbeings are not the novelty, not even the Japanese; whatis absorbingly new is the light, its whiteness, its silverymilkiness. We have come into it as through an open doorafter fourteen gray… … like those of the runners, and where we were joined attable by a foreign gentleman with high cheek-bones, yel-low face, and slanting eyes, and dressed in the latestEuropean fashion with high collar, four-in-hand scarf, andpointed shoes. He was very courteous, and managedwhat little English he used…
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