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| 51 | 139 | On the View more quotes about walls">walls, which circled about, still largely standing, there were dim mosaics. |
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| 51 | 136 | Some chains, little more than fragile collections of rust, ready to crumble at a touch, lay about. |
| 51 | 137 | The room was reached by a broad flight of stairs. |
| 51 | 138 | And, in the rear of the room, there was another broad flight of stairs, leading upward to another landing and walk. |
| 51 | 139 | On the walls, which circled about, still largely standing, there were dim mosaics. |
| 51 | 140 | The chamber had apparently, long ago, been used in the enslavement and training of women, doubtless taken in the raids and wars of those who had built these mighty halls. |
| 51 | 141 | Some of the mosaics showed the clothing of miserable captives being taken from them; others showed them being tied and whipped, doubtless to introduce them quickly and mercifully to the concept of being under discipline; others showed them being marked by hot irons and placed in collars; others showed them kneeling, head down, in submission, before their masters; others showed them being danced before their masters; others showed them serving the intimate pleasures of their masters. |
| 51 | 142 | We had chosen this room in which to camp, because of the girls. |