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| 43 | 137 | "And View more quotes about thus">thus his skills with the blade are less surprising". |
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| 43 | 134 | "And," said Lord Nishida, "should we not account ourselves fortunate to be successors to the skills of one who commanded such a guard?" "Doubtless," I said. |
| 43 | 135 | "And one supposes," said Lord Nishida, "that one did not come easily to the captaincy of a palace guard". |
| 43 | 136 | "Undoubtedly not," I said. |
| 43 | 137 | "And thus his skills with the blade are less surprising". |
| 43 | 138 | "Doubtless," I said. |
| 43 | 139 | Lord Nishida was certainly correct in suspecting that one who could rise to such a position would be wise with bladecraft. |
| 43 | 140 | On the other hand, I had little doubt that such an elevation would not be bought by steel alone. |