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CHAPTER XVII
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Gradually life became smoothed into the old routine existence. News seemed to occur sporadically1 in cycles, like the apexes3 and depressions of a chart; at times the vernacular4 press would be filled with accounts of disturbing events, strikes, mass meetings of workmen, of Socialists6 demanding this or that, establishment of shop committees in factories, recognition of the Soviet7 government; reports of arrests and police dispersing8 gatherings9; and this would be followed by hiatus-like intervals10 when it seemed almost as if all these things had been forgotten, as if the excitement had outworn itself. Kent found himself going often to the dances at Tsurumi; there was little else to do. He began to find Tokyo dull.
He was sitting with Karsten one evening in the study upstairs, talking idly of this and that. It was late; the brilliant glitter of the machiai below was gradually fading. Some one in the entrance hall was talking with Jun-san; they could hear the faint murmur11 of voices. Suddenly Jun-san appeared.
"Kent-san," wide-open eyes showed surprise, bewildered wonder. "A young lady has come to see you, Suzuki Kimiko-san. She says she must see you. What shall I do?"
"Well, I'll be hanged! Just wait a moment, Jun-san." He turned to Karsten, met only his ironic12 smile as he blew great smoke clouds luxuriously
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luxuriously
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postponement
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melodrama
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conjecture
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uncertainty
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