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It was an exciting moment; but, tense as it was, I could not help being amused at the pertinacity with which Ito, like all the Japanese, dragged in the word "honourable" upon every possible and impossible occasion.
Asako had been entertaining a visitor. She had gone out shopping for an hour, not altogether pleased to find herself alone. On her return, a Japanese gentleman in a vivid green suit had risen from a seat in the lounge of the hotel, and had introduced himself. "I am Ito, your attorney-of-law." He was a small, podgy person with a round oily face and heavy voluted moustaches.
"Now please say a few words in reply," he directed. Geoffrey, feeling acutely ridiculous, scrambled to his feet and thanked everybody for giving his wife and himself such a jolly good time. Ito translated. "Now please command to drink health of the Fujinami family," said the lawyer, consulting his agenda. So the health of Mr. and Mrs.
About a fortnight after the fair, on a fine windy afternoon, there was a holiday, and Taro, with his father and his younger brother Ito, turned out to fly kites. Some of their neighbours were already at work flying kites from the roofs of the houses or from windows, but our friends wanted more room than that, and went up to a piece of higher ground behind their street.
Ito and I were somehow lucky enough to escape without serious injury, but we both developed virulent attacks of inflammation of the lungs, which put us hors de combat for nearly three weeks. But there is no doubt that our recovery was greatly facilitated by the intimation, which reached us while we were still in hospital, that we had both been promoted to the rank of Commander.
"Ito Kun," he said at last, "you are indeed a great schemer. Every month you make one hundred schemes. Ninety of them are impracticable, eight of them are foolish, and two of them are masterpieces!" "And this one?" asked Ito. "I think it is impracticable," said his patron, "but it would be worth while to try. It would without doubt be an advantage to send away this foreigner.
Then her eyes encountered Billie's and she dropped them in embarrassment. They were both thinking of the same thing; the two notes left under a stone at the shrine and the rainy meeting in the garden. After all, perhaps Yoritomo might have thought she liked him but the idea was intolerable and Nancy thrust it aside. "How would you like to be mother-in-lawed by Mme. Ito, Nancy?" asked Elinor.
Marquis Ito, Japan's most illustrious statesman, is reported to have said: "I regard religion itself as quite unnecessary for a nation's life; science is far above superstition, and what is religion Buddhism or Christianity but superstition, and therefore a possible source of weakness to a nation?
He took the little fellow's hand in his and led him from one to another while his relatives stood in a beaming row. Children are called "treasure-flowers" in Japan, and are petted and spoiled quite as much as American children. "What a cunning little baby brother, Mr. Ito," said Nancy. "What is his name?" "Kenkyo," answered Yoritomo.
It was orderly, and there was a moaning figure in Tamada's bunk, a tossing figure with a head bound in a red bandanna above the black face and neck that showed above the blankets. The eyes were closed. The black hands, showing lighter palms, plucked at the coverings. "Delirious," said Lund. "Serves him right. He's a rotten cook." "Have you all the medicines you need?" asked Ito.
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