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| 40 | 88 | "It was regrettable," he said, "a View more quotes about sudden">sudden, thoughtless act, which, in the moment, I could not help, an act expressing my horror, my indignation, my outrage, at the attempt on the life of my beloved shogun". |
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| 40 | 85 | "At a supper," I said, "an assassin was foiled in the attempt to kill the great lord. |
| 40 | 86 | His shoulder bore the false sign of a lotus. |
| 40 | 87 | Before he could be interrogated, presumably under torture, which few men can withstand, you slew him, a knife to the back of the neck". |
| 40 | 88 | "It was regrettable," he said, "a sudden, thoughtless act, which, in the moment, I could not help, an act expressing my horror, my indignation, my outrage, at the attempt on the life of my beloved shogun". |
| 40 | 89 | "That you did not immediately present Tajima, the tarnsman, to the shogun suggests you were holding him for a purpose, perhaps that he might later figure in a staged capture, redounding to your benefit. |
| 40 | 90 | That you did not immediately return the shogun's daughter to him, and his justice, might serve a similar purpose, or perhaps, more likely, while it might be assumed or alleged that she had perished, she might be retained, her curves suggesting that she might prove of slave interest". |
| 40 | 91 | "Do not kill me," he said. |