The Samurai And The Long-Nosed Devils - Plot & Excerpts
Those men didn’t know, but I could never have lighted my gun in time. Who sent you?” “We were sent by Hambei, who was acting under Nobunaga’s orders,” said Zenta. “Have Lord Fujikawa’s men tried to attack you before?” “Up to now they were satisfied with a few insults,” replied the Portuguese. “When they got bolder, I simply pointed my gun at them, and that was enough to keep them at a distance. I wonder what made them attack today?” Zenta smiled. “I think your prestige slipped badly when you started to talk to them. You were using a woman’s style of speech.” “So that was it!” said the Portuguese. “I learned your language from some women in a fishing village. I had been shipwrecked and had to spend a long time in the village recovering. With the men away at sea, it was mostly the women who taught me the language. I keep forgetting that men and women speak differently here. In our language we don’t make a distinction.”
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