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| 24 | 99 | View more quotes about similarly">Similarly reserved, but for less skilled dancers, were the gamma and delka circles. |
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| 24 | 96 | They were not like most of the other circles, which were in the open, where naked slaves swayed to distant music for the delectation of masters. |
| 24 | 97 | The al-ka and ba-ta circles were enclosed, surrounded by walls of silk, held on poles. |
| 24 | 98 | Men had to pay a fee to enter, for within those confines they were to be treated to the finest exponents of the intricacies of slave dance. |
| 24 | 99 | Similarly reserved, but for less skilled dancers, were the gamma and delka circles. |
| 24 | 100 | In these first four circles the dancers were even clothed, that their beauties, if but ill-concealed, might be cunningly enhanced. |
| 24 | 101 | Each of these circles had its own group of musicians. |
| 24 | 102 | In the open circles, if a girl was displeasing, which few were, for only dancers were permitted in them, she might be merely hooted from the sand, or pelted with garbage, or perhaps dragged to the side and cuffed, but in the silken circles there were whip masters. |