The Swordsman of Tanosa: A Short Tale of the Middle Sea by Duncan M. Hamilton

Author:Duncan M. Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

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A DECADE and more had passed since Bafion had last seen Nicolo, but there was no mistaking him. He left the house and skipped down the steps outside the door with the same carefree attitude he had as a younger man. It was as though he didn’t have a worry in the world. He headed in the direction of the city centre, a course that took him quite close to where Bafion was sitting. He didn’t notice Bafion however; he had rarely ever noticed things that didn’t involve him directly.

Bafion felt such a mix of emotion on seeing Nicolo that he didn’t know how to react. The initial joy of seeing an old friend was erased by the memory of the last time Bafion saw him, in tight embrace with Caroline. Anger replaced it, and pain.

Bafion watched him as he walked away. He carried a little more weight around the waist. His light brown hair was shorter than he had kept it in the old days and it showed hints of grey over his ears. His face was much the same though; a few more lines here and there, but still shaved smooth and displaying the prominent cleft in his chin that he had always seemed so proud of. The years had been kinder to him than Bafion, but that did not come as a surprise.

Bafion resisted the urge to do it there and then; it was too hasty, too public. Gentlemen did not conduct their affairs in such ways, and even if he forgot the fact most of the time, Bafion was still a gentleman, and on this day he would be expected to behave as one, a further example of the hypocrisy of the social conventions adhered to in the city.

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