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166 HONDA THE SAMURAI. " You cast me off because I am a merchant's daughter, as I have said you would. I never be- lieved since my father is a street man and yours is a castle-dweller that you would make me your wife. Now I suppose that your father is to betroth you to a lady of samurai rank : I have so heard." " You have heard falsely, then. Let me go on to say that, though I am a samurai and you a merchant's daughter, my affection was real, and I hoped in time to overcome my honored father's prejudice, and to have our betrothal arranged and marriage consummated regularly, in form according with the strictest rules of etiquette. Yet now I have left off all association with you, secret or open, because I am a changed man." " But what is it that has changed you who is she?" " Miss Hoshi, it is the gods, not a woman, that have changed me. I can not explain all, but our Mikado, the Son of Heaven, owns me now. The foreigner is coming to drain our country of its gold and silver, its rice and tea and silk, to impoverish it by trade, perhaps to conquer it as India was conquered, but in any event to insult our country, and I have laid aside to drive him off. I can every other thought except not now think of love or marriage, and as no formal word of betrothal has ever passed between us, you can not in fairness reproach me with unfaithfulness." " But listen, Mr. Honda, one moment." " I can not ; you must excuse me, for here comes a party of people, some of whom I know by their
SCEtfEti AT A HERO'S SHRINE. 167 voices. Until the Son of Heaven is honored, or I try the fortune of the sword with the foreigner, I talk love with no woman. A samurai when he sees his duty plainly knows no man, woman, or devil. Sayonara (farewell)." So saying, he turned his back upon her and upon the party approaching in the direction of the shrine, and hurried off. His night was spent in and bitter thoughts. hard study, hers in tears Honda Jiro had the reputation among his friends and comrades of being an austere youth, fond alike of severe study and of athletic exercises, but not given to the light and easy life which so many of the samurai led. The love of pleasure for its own sake was hardly a feeling known to him. He was inde- pendent in his notions, and, despite his high ideals as a samurai, had more sympathy for the common people than most of his fellows. He had often been known to shield farmers' boys and " street men " from swaggering bullies who wore two swords and called themselves samurai. In one or two instances he had saved the lives of eta by threatening to draw sword and take their part against ruffians in silk clothes who would have cut down the outcasts like dogs. For him the social gulf which divided the gentry and the lower classes had often been bridged by kindly inter- course between his father and the grain-merchants. Honda himself went further than his father, and often made playmates of the children of a rich rice-mer- chant named Asai. Growing up together with her,
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voices. Until the Son of Heaven is honored, or I<br />
try the fortune of the sword with the foreigner, I<br />
talk love with no woman. A samurai when he sees<br />
his duty plainly knows no man, woman, or devil.<br />
Sayonara (farewell)."<br />
So saying, he turned his back upon her and upon<br />
the party approaching in the direction of the shrine,<br />
and hurried off.<br />
His night was spent in<br />
and bitter thoughts.<br />
hard study, hers in tears<br />
Honda Jiro had the reputation among his friends<br />
and comrades of being an austere youth, fond alike<br />
of severe study and of athletic exercises, but not<br />
given to the light and easy life which so many of the<br />
samurai led. The love of pleasure for its own sake<br />
was hardly a feeling known to him. He was inde-<br />
pendent in his notions, and, despite his high ideals<br />
as a samurai, had more sympathy for the common<br />
people than most of his fellows. He had often been<br />
known to shield farmers' boys and " street men " from<br />
swaggering bullies who wore two swords and called<br />
themselves samurai. In one or two instances he had<br />
saved the lives of eta by threatening to draw sword<br />
and take their part against ruffians in silk clothes who<br />
would have cut down the outcasts like dogs. For<br />
him the social gulf which divided the gentry and the<br />
lower classes had often been bridged by kindly inter-<br />
course between his father and the grain-merchants.<br />
Honda himself went further than his father, and often<br />
made playmates of the children of a rich rice-mer-<br />
chant named Asai. Growing up together with her,