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| 15 | 309 | And what was the View more quotes about meaning">meaning of my present situation? What temporary prison was this sturdy device in which I found myself? Why the slack corner ropes? What were they for? Were they to tether me further? They were much too large, too coarse and bulky, for that. |
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| 15 | 306 | I had encountered several in the past few months. |
| 15 | 307 | And why was I surreptitiously removed from Market of Semris? I was not a free woman, selected for a collar in some distant town or city, whose abduction might involve considerable risk. |
| 15 | 308 | And who was it from whom Tullius Quintus fled? How desperate he had been to escape! Whom did he so fear? Who had been our pursuer? Where was that pursuer now? Surely, by now, he was more than aware of my master's ruse, and the falsity of the track on which he had been set. |
| 15 | 309 | And what was the meaning of my present situation? What temporary prison was this sturdy device in which I found myself? Why the slack corner ropes? What were they for? Were they to tether me further? They were much too large, too coarse and bulky, for that. |
| 15 | 310 | What was the point of the black strap on my belly? Did my master really think I might easily, bound as I was, hand and foot, climb out, and flee away, from this open-ceilinged cell, this temporary slave-holding device? Its walls were not even metal. |
| 15 | 311 | It was of mere wicker, even if of sturdy wicker. |
| 15 | 312 | Too, it was light. |