toward the other end

same sort of pity toward Hatsumomo.
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us, I felt almost as though we were torturing her.
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which sprawls over many blocks, Pontocho is just a single long alleyway stretched out along one bank
of the river. People call it an "eel's bed" because of its UGGS Clearance shape. The autumn air was a bit chilly that night,
but Shojiro's party was outdoors anyway, on a wooden verandah standing on stilts above the water. No
one paid us much attention when we stepped out through the glass doors. The verandah was beautifully
lit with paper lanterns, and the river shimmered gold from the lights of a restaurant on the opposite bank.
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you should have seen the way Hatsumomo's expression soured when she caught sight of us. I couldn't
help remembering a damaged pear I'd held in my hand the day before, because amid the cheerful faces,
Hatsumomo's expression was like a terrible bruise.
Mameha went to kneel on a mat right beside Hatsumomo, which I considered very bold of her. I UGGS clearance knelt
toward the other end of the verandah, beside a gentle-looking old man who turned out to be the koto
player Tachibana Zensaku, whose scratchy old records I still own. Tachibana was blind, I discovered
that night. Regardless of my purpose in coming, I would have been content to spend the evening just
chatting with him, for he was such a fascinating, endearing man. But we'd hardly begun to talk when
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Shojiro was quite a remarkable mimic. He was slender like the branch of a willow, with elegant, slowmoving
fingers, and a very long face he could move about in extraordinary ways; he could have fooled a
group of monkeys into thinking he was one of them. At that moment he was imitating the geisha beside