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I think it would be well to give this Asa to him." To his surprise, the proposal met with unanimous opposition. The rest of the family envied and disliked Ito, who was regarded as Mr. Fujinami's pampered favourite. Grandfather Gennosuké was especially indignant.
He crossed the lake, croaking as he flew with a note more harsh, rasping and cynical than the consequential caw of English rooks. His was a malevolent presence "from the night's Plutonian shore," the symbol of something unclean and sinister lurking behind this dainty beauty and this elaboration of cleanliness. Mr. Fujinami's meditations were deep and grave. Soon he put down the book.
Fujinami's father by adoption only watches the progress of the family fortunes with the vigilance of Charles the Fifth in the cloister of Juste. Mr. Fujinami Gentaro shuffled his way towards a little room like a kind of summer-house, detached from the main building and overlooking the lake and garden from the most favourable point of vantage. This is Mr.
It must not be allowed to turn our yashiki into a battlefield." Mr. Fujinami's meditations that morning had been most bitter. His literary preoccupation was only a sham. There was a tempest in the political world of Japan. The Government was tottering under the revelations of a corruption in high places more blatant than usual.
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