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"Off were the head if Erp were alive; our brother, whom we slew on the way, and found out our deed too late." Even as the Song says, "Off were the head If Erp were alive yet, Our brother the bold, Whom we slew by the way, The well-famed in warfare." Now in this must they turn away from the words of their mother, whereas they had to deal with stones.
Otohime replied: "I am very much ashamed; but I shall tell you what I wish. "The blind man who came here the other day was the son of a rich and well-famed citizen of Kawachi, called Nobuyoshi. "At the time of the festival of Tenjin at Kitano in Kyoto, I met that young man there, on my way to the temple; and we then exchanged letters of love, pledging ourselves to each other.
But the merchant told the gate-keepers that he was Goto Sayemon, of the street called Muromachi, in the city of Kyoto; that he was a well-famed merchant there, and was by the people called Sendanya; that he had thrice been to India and thrice to China, and was now upon his seventh return journey to the great country of the Rising Sun.
Then a maid servant of the house, hearing the cry, came out and gave him food, and laughed aloud, saying: "Who could help laughing at the idea of trying to give anything to so comical a pilgrim?" Shuntoku asked: "Why do you laugh? I am the son of a rich and well-famed man, Nobuyoshi of Kawachi. But because of a malediction invoked upon me by my wicked stepmother, I have become as you see me."
I am the son of a rich and well-famed man in Kawachi, and I am called Shuntoku-maru." Then the daughter of that house, Otohime, suddenly remembering him, also became quite angry, and said to the servant: "You must not laugh rudely. Laughing at others to-day, you might be laughed at yourself to-morrow."
The brothers, who were English to a man, pricked up their ears at the sound of the homely and yet unfamiliar speech; but the Abbot flushed red with anger, and struck his hand upon the oaken arm of his chair. "What talk is this?" he cried. "Is this a tongue to be used within the walls of an old and well-famed monastery?
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