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 "Of all things in Japan, what a thing it is to fall in love!

"I was not in love with this one because he was a man, or because he was strange and fascinating—but because he was a glorious human being.

"My heart was not turned to this one to marry him. Marrying and giving in marriage are for such as are in love unconsciously.

"To see this one from the north country—to hear his voice—that was life and all for me—life and all.

"But he was gone.

"He left a silence and a weariness.

"These came and crowded out the white from my heart, and themselves found lodgment there.

"And all was heavy gray.

"The picture of life and the mystery and shadow that was revealed to me when the world was white has never