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These were joined by the mutes who followed the Barringtons. All of these people were dressed exactly alike. This dress, though gloomy and sacerdotal, was dignified and becoming; but the similarity was absurd. It looked like a studied effect at a fancy dress ball.
The Barringtons removed their boots and followed one of these ladies down a gleaming corridor with another miniature garden in an enclosed courtyard on one side, and paper shoji and peeping faces on the other, out across a further garden by a kind of oriental Bridge of Sighs to a small separate pavilion, which floated on a lake of green shrubs and pure air, as though moored by the wooden gangway to the main block of the building.
In return for the hospitalities of the Maple Club the Barringtons invited a representative gathering of the Fujinami clan to dinner at the Imperial Hotel, to be followed by a general adjournment to the theatre. It was a most depressing meal. Nobody spoke. All of the guests were nervous; some of them about their clothes, some about their knives and forks, all of them about their English.
Nagaki yo no To no nemuri no Miname-zame, Nami nori fune no Oto no yoki kana. From the deep sleep Of a long night Waking, Sweet is the sound Of the ship as it rides the waves. When August snow fell upon St. Moritz, the Barringtons descended to Milan, Florence, Venice and Rome.
The tribesmen whose fathers had fed their cattle from time immemorial upon the unfenced pastures of the plains were driven off, and took refuge in the forests, which still covered most of the centre of Ireland. The more profitable land was then leased by the Crown to English colonists Cosbies, Barringtons, Pigotts, Bowens, and others.
Other groups of friends, represented by the Ionides, the Prinseps, the Seniors, and the Russell Barringtons, seemed to have possessed him as their special treasure, in whose friendship he passed a great part of his life.
With a wave of the arm Mr. Ito added: "Please step this way, Sir and Lady." The Barringtons with Ito led the procession; and the mutes closed in behind them. Down endless polished corridors they passed with noiseless steps over the spotless boards. The only sound was the rustling of silk garments. To closed eyes they might have seemed like the arrival of a company of dowagers.
"The Barringtons have a sort of claim on me. I will let you know which way I decide." She stood close to him, and her hand fell upon his shoulder. "You are not going!" she exclaimed. "I have told them that I am at home to no one, and I thought that you would stay and entertain me. Sit down again, Wingrave!" "Sorry," he answered, "I have a lot to do this afternoon.
Such a person would be removed out of sight by his friends. The Japanese generally go sight-seeing and merry-making in friendships and companies; and the Verein, which in Japan is called the Kwai, flourishes here as in Germany. Two coolies started quarreling under the Barringtons' window. They too had been drinking.
The long visits to the Barringtons' rooms, the time spent in clothes-brushing and in massage, were so much opportunity gained for inspecting the room and its inhabitants, for gauging their habits and their income, and for scheming out how to derive the greatest possible advantage for himself. The first results of this process were almost unconscious.
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