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Updated: May 12, 2025
He would listen to none of her tales, telling her sharply that she was quite mistaken. At last the step-mother, seizing the opportunity of her husband's absence, ordered one of her old servants to take the innocent girl to the Hibari Mountains, the wildest part of the country, and to kill her there.
On her long way to Otsu, the only pleasing sights and sounds were the beautiful lilies growing wild by the roadside, the voices of the hibari and shijugara and all the birds of spring that sang in the trees, and the songs of the peasant girls who were planting the rice.
He rode hard and fast to the district of the Hibari Mountains, a great company following him. He was soon far ahead of every one, and at last found himself in a narrow picturesque valley. Looking round and admiring the scenery, he noticed a tiny house on one of the hills quite near, and then he distinctly heard a beautiful clear voice reading aloud.
But such sights and sounds could please her only a moment; for most of them caused her to dream of other days, and gave her pain by making her recollect the hopeless condition into which she had now fallen. Hibari, a species of field lark; shijugara, a kind of titmouse. Though greatly wearied by the hard labor she had undertaken for three whole days, she would not go to an inn.
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