A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 138: what you’re looking at

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130 A SERVANT OF SATAN. and to allow for the composition of the landscape, which is the Japanese ideal of a garden, they are obliged to arrange everything in miniature, and since trees of normal size would be out of keeping with the rest they have discovered an ingenious scheme of dwarfing them to a corresponding s1ze. One day, a few minutes after Frederick had arrived on his customary visit to the (tea-house), he was suddenly called out into the court-yard, where he found his betto stretched dead on the ground. Frederick had been in such a hurry to get away from home that he had ridden too fast, and the unfortunate native, whose duty, as in all oriental countries, it was to run before the horse, had, on reaching his destination, expired of the rupture of an aneurism of the heart. Much annoyed by this incident, Frederick or- dered the corpse to be conveyed home at once, and spent. the remainder of the day waka, the pretty ‘‘mousmes” at the tea-house. When he returned home that evening, the widow of his _ Ul-fated groom rushed up to him and, kissing his boot, en- treated his pardon for the ‘‘ stupidity of which her husband had been guilty in dying while out with the master and occasioning him thereby the trouble of attending to his own horse.” Frederick, much amused at this display of truly oriental courtesy, tossed the woman a few yen notes and entered the the house, laughing, with the intention of telling Madame Van der Beck abort it. The smile, however, faded from “ his lips when he came into her presence, for, having learned from the men who had brought home the groom's body, the ‘nature of the place where Frederick was in the habit of passing his days, her feelings of jealousy and anger were aroused to a boiling pitch. Thoroughly spoiled, accustomed to have every whim humored, and with no notion of how . to control her temper, she gave full vent to a perfect torrent €o m (GS 900 <5) (e(o)