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| 12 | 249 | "That the View more quotes about house">house of Temmu should yield to the house of Yamada," he said, "is clear, but the manner of yielding is less clear. |
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| 12 | 246 | "How could they agree otherwise," I said. |
| 12 | 247 | Perhaps, I thought, if the communication between the holding and the enemy were better they might agree even more closely. |
| 12 | 248 | "Speak," said Lord Temmu, to Daichi. |
| 12 | 249 | "That the house of Temmu should yield to the house of Yamada," he said, "is clear, but the manner of yielding is less clear. |
| 12 | 250 | What may be involved is not abject surrender, but accommodation". |
| 12 | 251 | "Interesting," I said. |
| 12 | 252 | "Rather than surrender," said Daichi, "Lord Temmu would prefer the termination of his line and the destruction of the holding altogether, even should the iron dragon spread its wings". |