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| 13 | 508 | I went back to the window. |
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| 13 | 505 | "All windows in the View more quotes about palace">palace, Master," said the girl whom I had ordered to the bars, "are similarly barred, even those in the private quarters of Lord Yamada himself". |
| 13 | 506 | I nodded, and indicated that they might leave. |
| 13 | 507 | They backed away, and then turned, and slipped from the room, gracefully, with the grace of slaves. |
| 13 | 508 | I went back to the window. |
| 13 | 509 | Perhaps, I thought, Lord Yamada has a point in these bars. |
| 13 | 510 | Might they not make it more difficult for an assassin to gain admittance to the palace, whether through one room or another? Bars do have their purposes, I thought, and not always to confine. |
| 13 | 511 | Might they not also serve to protect? In any event, I seemed to be no more a prisoner than Lord Yamada himself. |