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| 20 | 14 | I had View more quotes about gathered">gathered, earlier, from Lord Yamada that, in his view, she had failed him, even to the point of placing certain plans in jeopardy. |
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| 20 | 11 | Sumomo, in beautiful silks, a daughter of the shogun, knelt between Tajima and Pertinax. |
| 20 | 12 | I had been startled to see Sumomo at the table. |
| 20 | 13 | By now I feared she might have been nailed naked to one of the palace gates. |
| 20 | 14 | I had gathered, earlier, from Lord Yamada that, in his view, she had failed him, even to the point of placing certain plans in jeopardy. |
| 20 | 15 | I had gathered that her lapse had taken place on the outer parapet of the Holding of Temmu, where she had been detected casting a message, beribboned to facilitate its detection and retrieval, as Tajima had later confirmed my earlier speculation, to a confederate below. |
| 20 | 16 | Tajima had witnessed this and inferred, naturally enough, that this was done on behalf of Lord Nishida, to whom she was supposedly contracted. |
| 20 | 17 | One did suppose that her indiscretion would eventually be brought to the attention of Lord Nishida which intelligence, assuming him loyal to Lord Temmu, would terminate her usefulness in his quarters, as a spy. |