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| 5 | 138 | There were children about the periphery of the circles but many of them were View more quotes about already">already asleep on the rence. |
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| 5 | 135 | * * * * It was now late on the night of festival, and most of the feast had been consumed. |
| 5 | 136 | Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night. |
| 5 | 137 | The men sat cross-legged in the outer circles, and, in the inner circles, in the fashion of Gorean women, the women knelt. |
| 5 | 138 | There were children about the periphery of the circles but many of them were already asleep on the rence. |
| 5 | 139 | There had been much talking and singing. |
| 5 | 140 | I gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another. |
| 5 | 141 | Festival was important to them. |