Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . but for half a dozen years he had turnedhis attention to other matters than war, and the entrieswere not recent. Ushiwaka felt safe from after night he sought the Intra (store-house), andKatsura-hime held a light while he copied volume aftervolume. These saw their way safely to the house ofShomonbo at Yamashina. At the end of sixteen nightsthe last of the sixteen volumes was copied, and t
Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . but for half a dozen years he had turnedhis attention to other matters than war, and the entrieswere not recent. Ushiwaka felt safe from after night he sought the Intra (store-house), andKatsura-hime held a light while he copied volume aftervolume. These saw their way safely to the house ofShomonbo at Yamashina. At the end of sixteen nightsthe last of the sixteen volumes was copied, and the stonechest was finally closed and locked for the last time, to thegreat relief of Katsura-hime. Now walls have ears, and if Hogan knew nothing of theraid Ushiwaka had made on his strong box, he had hearda good deal of what was going on in his daughterspavilion. In rage and disappointment his first idea wasto kill them both. In the case of Ushiwaka two thingsrestrained him, fear and his age. He knew he was nolonger a match for the youth in arms, if he ever had he comforted himself as to impotence on this pointby the prohibition of his status as philosopher. This made. USHIWAKA AND KATSURAHIME. THE ADVENTURES OF USHIWAKA-MAKU. 321 pricks to purse or person a matter of outward indifference,no matter how he fumed inwardly. No Chinaman whomade any pretence to such pursuits ever made a fuss overthe deflowering of a maid, no matter how near a was the maids business on her own account to makequick connection with the bottom of the nearest anddeepest well. As to his own daughter he made little of theaccomplished fact, his disappointment being largely due tobalked ambition. However, if of no use to him in one wayshe could be in another. Running over the names of hisdisciples, past and present, he smiled a little as one Tan-kaibo Shirakawa came to mind. This fellow, fromKitashirakawa,* had the strength of fifty men. Both heand his daughter should be pleased at
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