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| 21 | 113 | She had been ignorant that her work had been View more quotes about discovered">discovered, and thought herself recalled to the palace either for her protection or for a new, different assignment. |
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| 21 | 110 | Unbeknownst to herself she had been detected on the outer parapet of the holding of Temmu by the warrior, Tajima, seemingly communicating with minions of Lord Yamada, waiting below. |
| 21 | 111 | This intelligence having been brought to the attention of Lord Temmu and Lord Okimoto, a daimyo of Lord Temmu, it had been determined that she was to be cast from the parapet at a time corresponding to that at which her observed message had been delivered. |
| 21 | 112 | Tyrtaios, however, presumably at the behest of an angered Lord Yamada, had extracted her from the holding on tarnback before this sentence could be emplaced. |
| 21 | 113 | She had been ignorant that her work had been discovered, and thought herself recalled to the palace either for her protection or for a new, different assignment. |
| 21 | 114 | In actuality, Lord Yamada, fearing his plans had been jeopardized by her clumsiness, had had her recalled not for her protection or for a new employment, suitable to her beauty and intelligence, but because he wished to visit his disappointment and displeasure upon her, in a most grievous manner, meting out to her a lengthy and painful death. |
| 21 | 115 | Tajima, in the garden, had tried to make this clear to her, but he had failed to convince her of her danger. |
| 21 | 116 | Sent to the garden to pry information from a manipulable male, one likely to be eager to please so beautiful a woman, she had returned, to her chagrin, empty handed to the supper, having succeeded in little more than having found herself regaled with what she viewed as absurdities and ravings. |