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| 19 | 395 | View more quotes about portus">Portus, taking his concealed tarn goad from its hiding place to one side, behind the loose board, entered the tarn cage in which he had placed the oblong, mysterious package before the arrival of the Cosian soldiers, and retrieved it from under the straw. |
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| 19 | 392 | "I am ready," said Tersius. |
| 19 | 393 | "Assist Selius," said Portus, looking about, as though he feared to hear at any moment the cries of men and the rushing of footsteps on the stairs, the rude, insistent smiting of spears against the inner door. |
| 19 | 394 | Tersius set the lamp, a small, shallow, panlike tharlarion-oil lamp, on a shelf bracket and hurried to gather up an armful of harnesses from pegs on the loft wall. |
| 19 | 395 | Portus, taking his concealed tarn goad from its hiding place to one side, behind the loose board, entered the tarn cage in which he had placed the oblong, mysterious package before the arrival of the Cosian soldiers, and retrieved it from under the straw. |
| 19 | 396 | He brought it to the loft area, and put it on the floor, not far from Ellen, and unrolled it. |
| 19 | 397 | Within, clattering out, there were several swords, two war axes, some crossbows, and some wired bundles of short, metal-finned quarrels. |
| 19 | 398 | Such things, Ellen gathered, were not permitted by the laws of the Cosian occupation. |