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      Genji would have liked to put Tamakazura's affairs in order, but the Silent Waterfall* of his longing produced complications. It was beginning to seem that Murasaki's fears had been well founded and that Genji would be the subject of scandalous rumors. To~ no Chu~jo~ was a man who liked to have things clear and in the open. He could not bear subterfuge. How sheepish a son-in-law he himself would be, thought Genji, on the day when everything was revealed to his friend!