"The Inn of Lost Time" Vocabulary

They were wandering _____(n), or unemployed samurai, and they

enjoyed watching this cozy family scene.

But they listened with ____ (adj) attention.

“It happened long before I met you,” said Zenta. He drank

some tea and smiled ______(adv).

The ______(adj) smell

seemed to grow and I could feel the saliva filling my mouth.

Despite his _____-looking face his back was a little bent, and

I guessed his age to be about fifty.

As for me, the loss was less _____(adj). I had left home

under extremely painful circumstances and had spent the next

three years wandering.

While we stood talking, a smell reached our noses, a won-

derful smell of freshly cooked rice. Suddenly I felt ____(adj).

Behind the boys the farmer’s wife took up a pair of iron

chopsticks and stirred the ashes of the fire in the charcoal _____(n).

Each panel

contained a landscape painting, the right panel _____ a winter

scene and the left one the same scene in late summer.

_____(adj) and lonely, Taro decided to open the box given him by the

princess.