Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER II, 2 I St. My dear Matsuba: ? How did I feel, do you imagine, when I went to see Madam for an engagement ? Do you know anything about a C. O. D. parcel ? I felt exactly like one, trembling in tragic fear, having little confidence that I would be welcomed without any disapproval. I am an adventurous, sir, I said gayly, leaving Mr. Consul's. Oya, oya I had forgotten to take my Japanese cards. 645 Fifth Ave. Wasn't number my aversion, ever since I suffered a nightmare at my school examination in mathematics ? How sad to see no silver-buskined romance in such an address How seriously I wished it were Fifth Avenue Castle, not cheapening itself with any 645 If the castle stood half a mile from the thoroughfare If a regiment of old pines began their parade from the gate, casting their heroic shadows like a design of Korin upon a screen I would be tempted to plunge into the purple blessedness?ponderous as if with the odor from a dear idol's nostrils. Isn't it the place where your papa could recite his favorite song of Rosei awakening from a dream of worldly pomposity ? How appropriately There was only the sound of the pine-leaves would sound I would like to know if there is anything more commonplace than an American door bell. It's too unromantically prompt, isn't it ? I am glad, however, that no one but a telegraph boy has a right to strike very hard. How dramatic it would be to call at the door, ' I beseech my entering, as at a Japanese country doctor's The most interesting thing with my 645 is the Stuart-Dodge. Isn't that hyphen great ? I fancy that Madam would regard it as an insult, if you should ever forget to add - . I hoped she were a Countess, but it was my afterthought that a Marchioness would be a de...