He had been told that the smoke would blacken his moon.

Besides, I question if he would have dared to remove the fan from the fireplace without consulting a Japanese authority.

He did not even know whether the Japanese burned coal.

I missed a number of the articles of furniture that had graced his former rooms.

The easels were gone; there were none of the old canvases standing against the wall, and he had exchanged his comfortable, plain old screen for one with lizards crawling over it.