Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.
James ClavellAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: australian
- Born: October 10, 1924
- Died: September 7, 1994
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