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| 24 | 349 | With this View more quotes about group">group, of some twenty or thirty individuals, including some children, I glimpsed the bared legs and arms of some tunicked slaves, at least five or six of them. |
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| 24 | 346 | But if it were mere massacre that was upon the mind of these men, if simple butchery was their intent, why did they not fall upon the huddled, kneeling group as a whole? Why did they not, in some two dozen fierce, merciless strokes, make the terrace run red with blood? Indeed, why had they bothered to bring them forth, here, to the terrace? Why had they not slaughtered them before, in the very vestibules, in the corridors, on the stairways of the buildings themselves? I saw then another group brought forth from a building. |
| 24 | 347 | It was smaller than the first group. |
| 24 | 348 | Perhaps it had been cut off in one of the buildings, a rear entrance sealed. |
| 24 | 349 | With this group, of some twenty or thirty individuals, including some children, I glimpsed the bared legs and arms of some tunicked slaves, at least five or six of them. |
| 24 | 350 | The tunics of two, at least, were of silk. |
| 24 | 351 | These women, these slaves, though animals, were being herded along, shoulder to shoulder, frightened, with the free individuals. |
| 24 | 352 | I heard swordplay, from my left, and about the corner of the wall. |