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| 18 | 510 | And then the View more quotes about women">women discover the camp is surrounded, and invaded, and then tents are afire, and then men are about, rude strangers, laughing and shouting. |
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| 18 | 507 | About them they hear the squeals of kaiila, the shouting of men, the shrieks of their sisters, the sudden pounding of paws in the grass behind them, and then the bright sound of a flighted, swirling, belled capture net. |
| 18 | 508 | And later those in the camp rejoice, seeing the dust approaching, which they take for the rapid, joyful return of their forces, triumphant. |
| 18 | 509 | But the camp guards have reconnoitered, and have hurriedly departed, that their swords may be saved for the defense of their Home Stone. |
| 18 | 510 | And then the women discover the camp is surrounded, and invaded, and then tents are afire, and then men are about, rude strangers, laughing and shouting. |
| 18 | 511 | Coffers are being forced open, and precious vessels, and handfuls of coins and jewelry, are being seized; silken hangings are draped on brawny arms; amphorae are unearthed; the odor of paga pervades the camp, and common warriors, perhaps for the first time, taste rare ka-la-na, guzzling it like kal-da. |
| 18 | 512 | The women, then, of whatever station, whether low-born or high, whether of high caste or low, together with camp slaves, are herded to the center of the blackened, smoldering camp, where all must, at a word, disrobe themselves, both bond and free, to be assessed, as though in a field market. |
| 18 | 513 | One woman speaks imperiously to a slave, as is her wont, and, to her astonishment, and pain, is slapped. |