Hearn, Lafcadio; Richie, Donald; books

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

He is a good-looking young man. Whenever I used to think of him I thought of the smile. . . . One day I looked through a little hole in the shoji and saw him alone. The face was not the same face. It was thin and drawn and showed queer lines worn by old hardship. I thought: ‘He will look just lik...