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Toward the end of the Fourth Month, Kaoru set out for Uji to inspect the process of building the chapel. A procession of woman’s carriages was just then coming across the bridge at Uji. Guarded by a band of rough East Country soldiers and servants, it was obvious that a provincial lady was inside. Kaoru sent to ask who she might be. The answer came that the daughter of the old governor of Hitachi had been to the temple of Hatsuse. Kaoru had happened to come across the girl about whom the nun told him the other day. Kaoru tried to see her secretly.
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