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| 44 | 182 | Aynur moaned. |
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| 44 | 179 | "You were, as I View more quotes about understand">understand it," said the first man to Aynur, who seemed now unable to rise even to her knees, "a poor first girl, one not only unpopular in the garden, but even one richly hated therein, one who ruled it strictly and cruelly, personally, arbitrarily, using your modicum of power as an opportunity to satisfy your vanity, bestowing favors on your sycophants, indulging in petty vendettas, stealing from, and abusing, those whom you disliked. |
| 44 | 180 | Too, you tried to seek power from guards, and even, through them, to contact, and influence, others, others, even, outside the house. |
| 44 | 181 | Your pettinesses, and administered punishments, often founded on nothing more than your whims and tastes, were notorious in the house". |
| 44 | 182 | Aynur moaned. |
| 44 | 183 | "And, in an abuse of your power, you tricked this other slave, and illicitly, treacherously delivered her, for putative gain, into our hands, in this act betraying both your office and your master". |
| 44 | 184 | Aynur's wrists seemed small, behind her back, pinioned there by the bracelets. |
| 44 | 185 | How helpless we are, bound! "So it seems fitting then," said the first man, "that your fate be now put in the hands of she whom you tricked, she whom you betrayed into our grasp". |