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| 28 | 9 | The pit View more quotes about master">master, as indicated, was also in the room. |
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| 28 | 6 | There were also, in the lofty, circular, sunlit room, the light coming through high, narrow windows, dust motes visible within it, two guards of the court. |
| 28 | 7 | A broad, scarlet marble circle was before the high desk of the praetor's officer, and the Lady Constanzia was conducted to its center, the guards then withdrawing, moving back, several feet, leaving her there, alone, on the circle. |
| 28 | 8 | She seemed small there, even tiny, before the high desk. |
| 28 | 9 | The pit master, as indicated, was also in the room. |
| 28 | 10 | I, too, was there. |
| 28 | 11 | Indeed, it was I who, in my office as keeper for the state of the free woman, had led her here, she leashed and back-braceleted on the way. |
| 28 | 12 | Though it might be thought demeaning to a free woman to be in the keeping of a slave, it was also thought to be less compromising to her modesty than to be led by a male. |