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| 20 | 12 | I had been View more quotes about startled">startled to see Sumomo at the table. |
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| 20 | 9 | Pertinax was to my left. |
| 20 | 10 | Tajima sat to the immediate right of Lord Yamada, as seemed fitting, as he was not only a high officer but Pani. |
| 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. |