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| 21 | 19 | She had been lashed. |
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| 21 | 16 | "I want him to buy me," she had View more quotes about later">later whispered to me, in the darkness, in the wagon, when Jane was asleep. |
| 21 | 17 | "I think I am his slave". |
| 21 | 18 | Jane, who was in the care of Astrinax, had been tied facing the wheel, naked, wrists widely apart, ankles widely apart, fastened to spokes. |
| 21 | 19 | She had been lashed. |
| 21 | 20 | She had tied a narrow, folded strip of cloth about her head, to hold back her hair and keep sweat from her eyes. |
| 21 | 21 | This could be interpreted as a talmit, which is a common sign of a first girl, the girl in charge of other female slaves, who usually reports directly to a master. |
| 21 | 22 | First girls are common when there are many slaves in a group, or household. |