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| 10 | 127 | Had their gowns not been sleeveless, and had they not been View more quotes about barefoot">barefoot, and had their throats not been locked in collars, one might have mistaken them for free women. |
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| 10 | 124 | To the music of the musicians, near the iron door, they performed a most decorous dance, slowly and gracefully lifting their arms and turning, facing first one side and then the other. |
| 10 | 125 | In their hands they held baskets of flower petals. |
| 10 | 126 | The dance was the sort that free maidens of a city might perform to honor and welcome visiting dignitaries, or the ambassador and his entourage, of a foreign city. |
| 10 | 127 | Had their gowns not been sleeveless, and had they not been barefoot, and had their throats not been locked in collars, one might have mistaken them for free women. |
| 10 | 128 | I could smell viands, too, cooking, the delicious odors of them emanating from the holding. |
| 10 | 129 | A feast was being prepared. |
| 10 | 130 | I did not see either the slave, Beverly, or the slave, Florence, among them. |