| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 42 | 72 | The prevention of View more quotes about slave">slave theft is one reason for the presence of slave rings in public places, for the fastening of slaves to the foot of couches at night, and so on. |
| 42 | 73 | I did not much fear slave theft as it would extract me from the boredom, if security, of the garden. |
| 42 | 74 | Indeed, I welcomed the prospect for I hoped that it would, sooner or later, bring me within the grasp of a master who would know how to handle me, and would do so, with audacity and command. |
| 42 | 75 | But I did not think these men were simply interested in picking up a pleasure-garden girl, even one who might be of unusual interest, either for their own house or to put on the block in some foreign city, hopefully turning a tidy profit on her. |
| 42 | 76 | I might be beautiful or not, but I did not think these men were interested in that sort of thing. |
| 42 | 77 | They did not seem to regard me with an interest which suggested they wanted me for themselves, nor, as far as I could tell, did I find in their gaze any speculations as to how I might appear to possible buyers, or to an unknown principal. |
| 42 | 78 | "Put her in the box," said Aynur. |