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Updated: May 26, 2025
The square room was gay with lamplight and firelight, which brought into strong relief the pictures of famous horses and trophies of old-time weapons matchlocks, basket-handled swords, and neat silver-hilted rapiers, prettiest of toys with which to pink your man that decorated its white-paneled walls.
He wore a black cloth cloak and doublet, his Flemish breeches and hose were of the same sombre hue, and his square-toed shoes were surmounted by large crape roses. Contrary, as it would seem, to the custom of a disciple of the peace-loving Saviour, he also wore a basket-handled sword, girded round his loins by a broad strap of black leather.
He chose three bright and clean Japanese swords, special blades of the Samurai armorers, forged long before Mutsuhito's grandfather was a boy I had paid a rare price for them in Japan. To these he added three basket-handled cutlasses, which I had obtained in London, each almost old enough to have belonged to the crew of Drake himself.
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