| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 535 | She was View more quotes about kneeling">kneeling on the stones, bent over, her head down, the hair falling forward, clad only in the bit of red silk, her wrists braceleted behind her back. |
| 17 | 536 | I saw her shoulders move, and, startled, realized that she wept. |
| 17 | 537 | I then moved into the center of the gambling men and, not speaking, as they looked up, angry at the intrusion, I took the metal goblet containing the knucklebones from the man who held it. |
| 17 | 538 | Bitterly, yet not daring to object, he surrendered it. |
| 17 | 539 | I looked from face to face, and then I shook the knucklebones and scattered them, the four of them, on the stones at my feet. |
| 17 | 540 | It had been a low cast, not high. |
| 17 | 541 | Several of the men laughed with relief. |