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In the Eleventh Month, the festival was canceled. Genji set off for Momozono mansion again. The traffic seemed to be going through the north gate. It would have been undignified for Genji to join the stream, and so he sent one of his men in through the great western gate. A chilly-looking porter rushed out to open it. But the gate was rusty, which gave him great trouble. Genji murmured, " When did wormwood overwhelm this gate? The hedge is now under snow, so going to ruin".
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