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own his father's ihai, and touching to it his forehead, pledged all his lives to make true that which had been made false. For, yes, their names were the same, his father's and

filial sin they had let him

in oil before the tablet of his father, he rub

he said childishly, "that your spirit waited in the

for the tears ran down his

always in the cold dark Meido for me to set you on your way to the sleep in Buddha's bosom, this it is which makes me promise, here, now, by all the eight hundre

ttle boy. But now I am at once a man. It is true, august father, I must not lie to you, that I would rather be at Shiba with Yon

at the last word of that prayer, and the upper panel of the false picture loosed itself from the brocade to which it was attached and, falling, covered c

e a prayer. For suddenly, also, Arisuga, from a child, at ten had become

t not live under the same heavens nor upon

for children," said the

answered Arisuga. "F

"It does not mean that you must

ented the one from Osa

enemies of your lord and

id Arisuga again, haughtily,

id the one, "is a manif

ed to th

such," said the other.

e boy, significantly,

n the gods obscured the p

sent," sai

has changed you?" furt

g upon them both sternly, and

iomidzu, "that all

as it ever will

a silence,

sun is

were driven from the door of th

in their goin

honorable hospitality, remem

in the way, one s

kn

ht he who was ad

. Our brother will now be released from

come in his presence, so th

other agreed w

rk is n

, and had many more thoughts. But all were of

etry, and cherry-blossoms, and his samisen, and the soft satin hand of the little Yoné. For it was true, as Nijin said, an

e of the obscured picture, that he

grew faster th

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