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Updated: May 18, 2025
"They are too happy," Lady Everington said to Laking a few days later, "and they know nothing. I am afraid there will be trouble." "Oh, Lady Georgie," he replied, "I have never known you to be a prophetess of gloom. I would have thought the auspices were most fortunate." "They ought to quarrel more than they do," Lady Everington complained. "She ought to contradict him more than she does.
"I did not mean to be," said Laking penitently. "She is a most ingratiating little creature, like a lazy kitten; but I think it is unwise for him to take her to Japan. All kinds of latent orientalisms may develop." The spring was at hand, the season of impulse, when we obey most readily the sudden stirrings of our hearts.
Barrington, especially, was pleased to have this opportunity to hear about Japan from one who had but lately left the country, and who was moreover a fluent and agreeable talker. Laking had not resided in Japan long enough to get tired of orientalism. He described the quaint, the picturesque, the amusing side of life in the East.
"Do you think that, if the Barringtons go to Japan, there is any danger of Asako being drawn back into the bosom of her family?" "No, I shouldn't think so," Laking replied, "Japanese life is so very uncomfortable, you know, even to the Japs themselves, when once they have got used to living in Europe or America.
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