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| 18 | 241 | View more quotes about though">Though she was a female, and he a male, and though she was a contract woman, and he free, she had not bowed to him. |
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| 18 | 238 | I caught sight of Tajima, now, again, in the clearing. |
| 18 | 239 | He approached Sumomo. |
| 18 | 240 | She turned away. |
| 18 | 241 | Though she was a female, and he a male, and though she was a contract woman, and he free, she had not bowed to him. |
| 18 | 242 | I understood this to be an insult of some sort, and I noted that Tajima's body, briefly, stiffened with rage. |
| 18 | 243 | He then remained standing, where he was, where he had been rebuffed, looking after Sumomo, who was now with Hana, facing away from him, several feet from him, not far from the smoldering embers of Lord Nishida's collapsed, blackened pavilion. |
| 18 | 244 | "I fear the contract woman," I said, "did not treat Tajima well". |