欺瞞: to deceive, to dupe

白河: Baihe County, a place in China

博雅: erudition; a well-read person

博雅: erudite

嬉し泣き: to cry for happiness

嬉し泣き: crying for happiness

Classical Japanese form of うれしい (ureshii, “happy”)

打ち: hitting, striking; a hitter, a striker / 斑, 駁, 駮: spots, speckles, patches (particularly in the coat of an animal) / 鞭: a whip

to blow something away / (figuratively) to brush something away, to blow something away

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