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| 20 | 210 | She did make out the word 'rendezvous', from which word she View more quotes about gathered">gathered that Portus, and perhaps unknown allies, would soon meet, to prosecute some plan or another. |
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| 20 | 207 | Given the narrowness of the sheltering ravine, and its various physical limitations, boulders and such, they were only a few yard away. |
| 20 | 208 | But, even so, they spoke softly, and she could not hear what they said. |
| 20 | 209 | Their demeanor seemed earnest, their tones urgent. |
| 20 | 210 | She did make out the word 'rendezvous', from which word she gathered that Portus, and perhaps unknown allies, would soon meet, to prosecute some plan or another. |
| 20 | 211 | What part she might play in their plan, or plans, she had not been informed. |
| 20 | 212 | She recalled the saying that curiosity was not becoming in a slave girl, a saying which had always seemed ironic to her, because, to the best of her knowledge, amongst such eager, bright, lively creatures, an avid curiosity was endemic. |
| 20 | 213 | If you were a chained slave, often deliberately kept in ignorance, would you not be zealous to be apprised of the least tidbit of news, for example, that you were to be transported, sold or mated? Why have they gagged me, wondered Ellen. |