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Show 105 either side. "Sorry, sir," he said after a moment. "If you'll excuse,me, I'll get back." And straightening up, he snapped a salute and departed. The Engineers' outlook on the Orient was not complex. Thay would have preferred to go to Europe, whence issued all culture; all the East had, as far as they could tell, was a handful of knickknacks, prints, and imported brocade; and the only thinker they'd heard of was Confucius, who dealt in off-color epigrams. Their troops were, of course, young men in full rut, and it was an open secrst .hat many had formed local attachments too, though they kspt the relationship properly improper, never appearing together in public. TheDetachments, on the other hand, -.«^_^__a T"15^ not only spoke the language but sympathized with the people, and fraternized with both men and women. Many had been taken in by Japanese families, and though still forced to obey regulations, found it easier to merge into the populace than did their blue-syed brethrsn across the water. At the end of the day they could be seen strolling off down the Hondori, quietly turning into a side lane; MPs patrolling tha area later saw only a Japanese Family sitting around a brazier, one of the members bearing a haircut which, in Phyllis Parker's description, only an army could love. In Naka no one was really detarred by the off-limits |