During the rains & Flowers in the shade : two novellas by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nagai, Kafū, 1879-1959
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Published: 1994-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

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EIGHT

Since her husband generally got up toward noon, each morning Tsuruko would have her solitary breakfast of milk and toast instead of the usual rice, clean out the cage of the parrot she'd kept the past several years, water the bonsai, do up her hair, get dressed, and wait for her lord and master to arise. This morning, among the mail that the maid brought her with the milk, there was a letter with both the address and name written in Western characters. Casually picking it up, Tsuruko discovered it was for her. The handwriting was familiar. It was from Madame Joule, the French lady from whom she had taken lessons for more than two years before and after her graduation from girls' school.

Madame Joule, wife of the noted Orientalist Alphonse Joule, had accompanied her husband to the East, living in China for upward of ten years and afterward for several years in Japan. At one time she had returned to her own country, but after her husband's death, to console herself for her widowhood she had traveled by herself in America and later returned to Japan, where she'd lived in Tokyo for a couple of years. It was during this period that Tsuruko and two or three of her schoolfriends had studied French and etiquette with her. After Madame Joule's return to Paris, an urgent matter had arisen in connection with the posthumous publication of her husband's work. And so four or five days ago she had once again returned to Japan. She was staying at the Imperial Hotel and wished Tsuruko to come and visit her.

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