By Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley
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These have been since childhood guarded behind lattice windows I and no knowledge of them is allowed to reach the outer-world, save that of their excellence in some accomplishment or art; and this may indeed sometimes arouse our interest. She is pretty and graceful and has not yet mixed at all with the world. Such a girl by closely copying some model and applying herself with great industry will often succeed in really mastering one of the minor and ephemeral arts. Her friends are careful to say nothing of her defects and to exaggerate her accomplishments, and while we cannot altogether trust their praise we cannot believe that their judgment is entirely astray.
For after all " I thought "she cannot want to put me altogether out of her head. When I informed her of this purchase she did not rebuff me nor make any attempt to hide from me) but to all my questions she answered quietly and composedly, without any sign that she was ashamed of herself. , At last she told me that if I went on as before, she could never forgive me; but if I would promIse to live more quietly she would take me back again. Seeing that she snll hankered after me I determined to school her a little further yet, and said that I could make no conditions and must be free to live as I chose.
Her best way will be without regular study to pick up a little here and a little there, merely by keeping her eyes and ears open. Then, if she has her wits at all about her, she will soon find that she has amassed a surprising store of information. " And many of these characters, to which she intended the colloquial pronunciation to be given, are certain to be read as Chinese, and this will give the whole composition an even more pedantic sound than It deserves. Even among our ladies of rank and fashion there are many of this sort, and there are others who, wishing to master the art of versemaking, in the end allow it to master them, and, slaves to poetry, cannot resist the temptation, however urgent the business they are about or however inappropriate the time, to make use of some happy allusion which has occurred to them, but must needs fly to their desks and work it up Into a poem.
