| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 140 | Wearing the aba View more quotes about taken">taken from Msaliti, hooding myself with it, that my face and eyes not be seen, Sasi on my shoulder, rolled in a blanket tied tightly closed with ropes, I had acquired the lodging. |
| 12 | 141 | The free woman who rented me the room asked no questions. |
| 12 | 142 | When I had given her a copper tarsk as a tip she had looked down at the tightly tied blanket, containing its helpless burden, and had looked up at me, grinning. |
| 12 | 143 | "Enjoy yourself," she had said, slipping the tarsk into a pouch tied at her hip. |
| 12 | 144 | "If we knew it," said Shaba, "men, even now, would be ransacking it for the ring and notes". |
| 12 | 145 | "Of course," I said. |
| 12 | 146 | "You moved quickly," said Shaba. |