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| 47 | 250 | "Four!" View more quotes about whispered">whispered an Ashigaru. |
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| 47 | 247 | The crowd, and we prisoners, who had now followed Lord Yamada to the new marker, that set at thirty paces, were absolutely silent. |
| 47 | 248 | The only sound had been that of the snap of the flat of a blade against a slender, narrow, swirling cylinder of wood. |
| 47 | 249 | We regarded one another. |
| 47 | 250 | "Four!" whispered an Ashigaru. |
| 47 | 251 | No longer did Lord Yamada extend cordial greetings to the subject of his test, nor did he accord him any longer a pleasant commendation, but merely extended his hand, that a new arrow be placed within it. |
| 47 | 252 | The third bow, the shogun having advanced to the twenty-pace mark, was strung by the stout, brawny fellow. |
| 47 | 253 | Nine arrows had been expended when we, following Lord Yamada, moved to the ten-pace marker, where the fourth bow was strung, this also strung, though now with difficulty, by the stout, brawny fellow. |