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| 28 | 51 | "View more quotes about mercy">Mercy, Masters!" cried one, on her knees in the mud, lifting her hand piteously, and her outcry, unacceptable and importunate, was answered with a stroke of the switch. |
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| 28 | 48 | Rain was falling, cold and pelting, almost blinding. |
| 28 | 49 | Their hair was clotted with mud and their tunics were filthy. |
| 28 | 50 | Mud covered their legs to the thighs. |
| 28 | 51 | "Mercy, Masters!" cried one, on her knees in the mud, lifting her hand piteously, and her outcry, unacceptable and importunate, was answered with a stroke of the switch. |
| 28 | 52 | She regained her feet and, joining her coffled sisters, pressed, weeping, with the palms of her small hands against the rude back of the wagon. |
| 28 | 53 | "Hold," I said, moving forward. |
| 28 | 54 | I put my back under the wagon, facing backward, and, straightening a little, managed to lift it from the mud, and thrust it forward a foot or two. |