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| 11 | 73 | As the View more quotes about girl">girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth. |
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| 11 | 70 | One of the smiths from below was summoned with a bowl of slave porridge, which he mixed half with water, and stirred well, so that it could be drunk. |
| 11 | 71 | There are various porridges given to slaves and they differ. |
| 11 | 72 | The porridges in the iron pens, however, are as ugly and tasteless a gruel, and deliberately so, as might be imagined. |
| 11 | 73 | As the girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth. |
| 11 | 74 | The girl tried to hold her breath but when it became necessary for her to breathe she must needs swallow the gruel; twice more the smith did this, and then the girl, defeated, swallowed the gruel as he poured it into her mouth, half choking on it. |
| 11 | 75 | "Put her back in the kennel," said Ho-Tu. |
| 11 | 76 | "Will you not remove the bracelets from her?" I asked. |