| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 20 | 288 | I tensed, for I View more quotes about expected">expected, having so blocked his path, to be kicked, or struck. |
| 20 | 289 | I must then try to seize an ankle, or knee, pleading desperate need. |
| 20 | 290 | I knew I might risk a thrashing with his stick. |
| 20 | 291 | But I had been ordered to delay him, and delay him I would, if I could. |
| 20 | 292 | "A needful slave begs master to take pity upon her," I said. |
| 20 | 293 | I trembled. |
| 20 | 294 | But I did not feel the scorn of his foot, thrusting me to the side, toward the central gutter in the street, nor did I feel his hand in my hair, yanking my head up, to lash my face back and forth with what would undoubtedly have been a well-deserved cuffing. |