| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 808 | A vendor was pursuing them. |
| 16 | 809 | She saw four View more quotes about women">women, their hands chained behind their backs, their necks fastened together with a chain, being prodded through the square by three armed men, helmeted and tunicked as had been the other two. |
| 16 | 810 | The women were naked. |
| 16 | 811 | Ellen supposed that they, too, then, were slaves. |
| 16 | 812 | They looked upon the occupants of the shelf, and smiled, tossing their heads, doubtless comparing themselves favorably with what they saw there. |
| 16 | 813 | "She-urts!" cried the girl to Ellen's left, with a rustle of chain. |
| 16 | 814 | One of the women being herded through the square, she who was first in the coffle, turned angrily in her chains and seemed about to reply, but the man nearest to her raised his hand, palm open, menacingly, and she put down her head, cringing, and hurried forward, turning her head so that the pressure of the collar would be at the side of her neck and not the front of her throat. |