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| 5 | 140 | I View more quotes about gathered">gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another. |
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| 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. |
| 5 | 142 | Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans. |
| 5 | 143 | During most of the feast I had been used in the serving, particularly the serving of the girls who had competed for me, one of whom had won me, which one I did not know. |