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The old woman Benn, who was the first cousin of Kojiju and of the Eighth Prince’s deceased wife, received Kaoru. Her mother had worked for the late Kashiwagi. Talking with her, he vaguely understood the secret of his birth. Towards the dawn, the mist lay over the mountains. As he stood up to leave, the bell of the monastery sounded in the distance. The sadness of his own life and of the princesses’ poured over him. He and the older princess, Oigimi, exchanged poems.
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