La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 296
left upon the floor. The insult would have been im-possible to explain away had not some sensible Japaneseofficial decided that a man who was so careless with hissword as to leave it on the mat, instead of on the reput-able sword-rack, had no right to complain of anothersinadvertence. I sometimes… … RUNNER IN THE RAIN. horns, or strapped the two great swords at their waist.And I am lost in respect and bewilderment to think that allthis wondrous change—as great as any that the worldcan have seen—was effected with such success and ac-cepted in such a lofty spirit. We were now to give up the…
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