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| 11 | 264 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes, too, they might be dispatched under the cover of darkness to carry messages for their mistresses, pertaining to projected rendezvous. |
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| 11 | 261 | I supposed that were so. |
| 11 | 262 | Usually, of course, they would be in the company of their masters, or, say, keepers, if they might be returning late from feasts, serving slaves, flute slaves, kalika slaves, brothel girls, dancers, or such. |
| 11 | 263 | Too, it was not unknown for a neglected slave, if unconstrained, to prowl the streets, hoping for a secret tryst, to relieve her needs. |
| 11 | 264 | Sometimes, too, they might be dispatched under the cover of darkness to carry messages for their mistresses, pertaining to projected rendezvous. |
| 11 | 265 | To be sure, it was unusual for an unaccompanied slave to be abroad at night. |
| 11 | 266 | But then, indeed, few, slave or free, if solitary, essayed the streets after dark, particularly in certain districts. |
| 11 | 267 | One, if sufficiently affluent, and lacking his own men, might hire guards, and a lantern bearer. |