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 | | Try as he would, he could find no explanation for the disastrous turn of events; and meanwhile his daughter, the butt of mortifying ridicule, was being treated as though she were no longer a member of the Court. |
 | | She was one of two children, a boy and a girl, born to a lady whose father was Atsutoshi, the eldest son of the Ononomiya Minister Saneyori, and whose brother was the noted calligrapher Sukemasa, the Minister of War. |
 | | Feeling, no doubt, a certain uneasiness, the overjoyed Major Counselor offered fervent prayers for her success, and many months passed with no alteration in the Imperial passion, which indeed was almost disgusting in its ardor. |
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