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He welcomed me with a forgetfulness of my bitter satire and my hostile abstinence that was almost divine. His glasses fell off at the sight of me. His round inexpressive eyes shone brightly. He held out his plump short hand. "Here we are, George! What did I tell you? Needn't whisper it now, my boy. Shout it LOUD! spread it about! Tell every one! Tono TONO , TONO-BUNGAY!"
For this purpose he fixed his choice on the greatest tono in Japon, called Yeyasudono, lord of Quanto which are certain provinces in the north who had children and grandchildren, and more influence and power in Japon than any other man in the kingdom.
"So would I," said Katie, and it brought the ghost of a smile to Ann's lips, perhaps thinking of just how cordially Katie would hate her. "And then after a while you left this town?" Katie suggested as Ann seemed held there by something. "Yes, after a while I left." And that held her again. "I was fifteen when I freed Tono from life," she emerged from it.
"It's yours; I present it to you.... Eat it with potatoes." And he went off with all the spoils. Magdalena was left standing in doubt, while he cradled the child in his arms. The poor little thing!... It looked just like his own Tono, when he sang him to sleep; just like him when he was ill and leaned his little head upon his father's bosom, while the parent wept, fearing for the child's life.
This also in following times was a fountain of miraculous cures, not only to the Christians, but also the idolaters; and the Tono himself, in the height of a mortal sickness, recovered his health on the instant that the book was applied to him by his wife. So that the people of the fortress said, that their prince was raised to life, and that it could not be performed by human means.
I have already I think, mentioned how, long before we offered Tono Bungay to the public, we took over the English agency of certain American specialties.
"Katie, I don't believe you'll laugh at me when I tell you that my teeth fairly chattered when first it came to me that I must be one of those people! It was something all different from the longing for fun oh it was something big terrible it had to be. It was the same feeling of its having to be that I had about Tono.
"No one except one who loves dogs as you do would know what it meant. Even you can't quite know. For Tono was all I had. He " Katie's arm about her tightened. "I could have stood it for myself. I could have stood my own lonesomeness. But what I couldn't stand was thinking about him.
"You see ever since Tono had died two years before, I had kept that idea that things were hard. That the thing to do was to be hard. I dreamed about things that were lovely the Something Somewhere things but as far as the real things went I never changed my mind about them. You mustn't let them into your heart. They just wanted to get in there to hurt you. "Now I forgot all about that.
Too much like Duffer! Difficult thing, a title." I ran my mind over various possibilities. "Why not take a leaf from a socialist tract I came upon yesterday. Chap says we're all getting delocalised. Beautiful word delocalised! Why not be the first delocalised peer? That gives you Tono-Bungay! There is a Bungay, you know. Lord Tono of Bungay in bottles everywhere. Eh?"
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