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| 26 | 227 | But I would be View more quotes about scarcely">scarcely less helpless if I were in a tiny slave cage, through the bars of which he might thrust with his sword, perhaps a hundred short, sharp times, or, similarly available to him, for whatever he might choose to do to me, chained with my belly to a tree, my ankles and wrists fastened about it. |
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| 26 | 224 | I followed the men, on my chain tether. |
| 26 | 225 | So I might dance? So soldiers might draw lots for my use? So I might serve Pietro Vacchi? But what then? Would the man following not "bide his time" as Tupita had said? Would there not come a time, sooner or later, if he were patient, and I did not doubt but what he was patient, very patient, when he could find me alone? I might even be staked out, my hands and legs widely separated. |
| 26 | 226 | I had heard mercenaries sometimes enjoyed fastening women down in such a way. |
| 26 | 227 | But I would be scarcely less helpless if I were in a tiny slave cage, through the bars of which he might thrust with his sword, perhaps a hundred short, sharp times, or, similarly available to him, for whatever he might choose to do to me, chained with my belly to a tree, my ankles and wrists fastened about it. |
| 26 | 228 | I looked back, in fear. |
| 26 | 229 | He was still following! One stroke of his sword, I knew, if it were his decision to be swift with me, could remove my head. |
| 26 | 230 | "I am looking forward to seeing her dance," said Vacchi. |