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Genji passed his days at Sanjo mourning for his wife. He prayed earnestly, recalling over the past years they had spent together. He missed Murasaki. He went to bed alone and spent sleepless nights. In a late autumn misty dawn, a letter of sympathy was brought in, written on dark blue gray paper attached to a half opened bud of chrysanthemum. The hand was that of the Rokujo lady. As he had a horrible experience of facing her spirit at the death of Aoi, the letter appeared to him empty.
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