は失礼です、どうぞご遠慮なくと動く景色もない。なに構うもんですか、送別会なら、送別会らしくするがいいです、あの様をご覧なさい。気狂会です。さあ行きましょうと、進まないのを無理に勧めて、座敷を出かかるところへ、野だが箒を振り振り進行して来て、やご主人が先へ帰るとはひどい。日清談判だ。帰せないと箒を横にして行く手を塞いだ。おれはさっきから肝癪が起っているところだから、日清談判なら貴様はちゃんちゃんだろうと、いきなり拳骨で、野だの頭をぽかりと喰わしてやった。野だは二三秒の間毒気を抜かれた体で、ぼんやりしていたが、おやこれはひどい。お撲ちになったのは情ない。この吉川をご打擲とは恐れ入った。いよいよもって日清談判だ。とわからぬ事をならべているところへ、うしろから山嵐が何か騒動が始まったと見てとって、剣舞をやめて、飛んできたが、このていたらくを見て、いきなり頸筋をうんと攫んで引き戻した。日清……いたい。いたい。どうもこれは乱暴だと振りもがくところを横に捩ったら、すとんと倒れた。あとはどうなったか知らない。途中でうらなり君に別れて、うちへ帰ったら十一時過ぎだった。
It would be rude of me; please, do not stand on ceremony—yet there was no moving scenery to behold. What is there to mind? If it is a farewell party, then let it be a proper farewell party. Just look at that spectacle. It is a madhouse. Come, let us go, he said, forcing those who would not advance, and just as they were about to leave the parlor, Noda came marching in swinging a broom. "For the master to go home ahead is too much. This is the Japan–Qing negotiation. I shall not let you leave," he said, and held the broom sideways to block the way. I had been in a foul temper since earlier, so I said, if this is the Japan–Qing negotiation, then you must be the clown, and at once struck Noda square on the head with my fist. For two or three seconds Noda stood dazed, as if drained of all spirit, blankly staring, then cried, "Oh, this is too much. To be struck is a shame. That you should strike this Yoshikawa—I am impressed. This is all the more a Japan–Qing negotiation." While he was spouting such nonsense, Yamarashi, seeing from behind that some commotion had broken out, stopped his sword dance and came flying over; but at the sight of this state of affairs, he instantly grabbed Noda by the nape and yanked him back. "Japan–Qing… it hurts. It hurts. This is rather violent," Noda struggled, twisting aside, and toppled over with a thud. What became of things after that, I do not know. Parting with Uranari on the way, I returned home past eleven o'clock.
