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| 26 | 65 | It is not View more quotes about easy">easy to climb the nine steps of blood. |
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| 26 | 62 | Who then would seek admission to such a despised caste? Perhaps the feared, and loathed. |
| 26 | 63 | But, too, in some, is there not an attraction to dark power, and the gratification of inspiring apprehension? But admission is not easily purchased. |
| 26 | 64 | Few are permitted to compete, and of those who are permitted to compete, few live to don the sable tunic. |
| 26 | 65 | It is not easy to climb the nine steps of blood. |
| 26 | 66 | There is no place in the caste, incidentally, for the inept and dull, for thugs, vandals, and bullies, for the naively, simplistically brutal, for the petty, or the merely cruel and greedy, for the refuse of a city's gutters, for those regarded as the unworthy. |
| 26 | 67 | Few survive to carry the "dark sword". |
| 26 | 68 | Doubtless there are reasons why one, perhaps despairing and ruined, might seek entrance into dreaded precincts. |