honorable-return-is

Updated: May 3, 2025

Midday came as she sat thinking how she could say least selfishly what it was now her duty to say, the first words of reproach that would ever have passed her lips. Then her heart leaped with a shock that made everything blur and swim before her sight in a whirl of dizziness, because there was a sound of kuruma-wheels and the voice of a servant calling: "Honorable-return-is!"

Lafcadio Hearn - Kokoro : Japanese Inner Life Hints