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| 27 | 103 | View more quotes about second">Second, there were several in the pens and the likelihood of removing an occupant or two without some sort of outcry or contretemps was unlikely. |
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| 27 | 100 | There would be, I had conjectured, two slaves there of interest, one to me, and the other, I suspected, in spite of what he might claim, to a friend of mine. |
| 27 | 101 | Haruki, however, with an earnestness which seemed incongruous with his normal composure, had forbade this venture and I, however reluctantly, had acknowledged the wisdom of his counsel. |
| 27 | 102 | First, the pens were guarded and locked shut. |
| 27 | 103 | Second, there were several in the pens and the likelihood of removing an occupant or two without some sort of outcry or contretemps was unlikely. |
| 27 | 104 | Thirdly, the slaves in which I was interested might not be in the same pen as before. |
| 27 | 105 | The contents of that pen might have been rather special, being white-skinned slaves obtained for rice in the north, during the siege of the holding of Lord Temmu. |
| 27 | 106 | Tajima, I recalled, had been annoyed at the lack of Pani slaves held behind those stout wooden bars. |