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| 17 | 13 | View more quotes about none">None of the slaves were willing to apply the soothing oil to Ellen, but Barzak had ordered Cichek, who, with Emris, were perhaps the slaves who disliked Ellen the most, she being a barbarian, to do so. |
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| 17 | 10 | Too, as we have noted, Targo was not, all things considered, an unkind master. |
| 17 | 11 | He would not hesitate, of course, to have a woman branded, or whipped, and such. |
| 17 | 12 | Such things go with the mastery. |
| 17 | 13 | None of the slaves were willing to apply the soothing oil to Ellen, but Barzak had ordered Cichek, who, with Emris, were perhaps the slaves who disliked Ellen the most, she being a barbarian, to do so. |
| 17 | 14 | They did not care for barbarians, which was not uncommon, but, too, they, perhaps more intensely than Zara and Lydia, were sensitive to the humiliation of sharing a chain with one. |
| 17 | 15 | Cichek, who had been deliberately assigned this duty by Barzak, that she might be the better reminded of her nothingness, her lowliness and bondage, was not gentle. |
| 17 | 16 | "Forgive me, Mistress," had said Ellen, wincing. |