| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 43 | For a View more quotes about full">full day, too, the coverlet had been left tied over her head, fastened by the twice-turned, knotted scarf about her neck. |
| 9 | 44 | On the second day, it had been thrust up only that the spike of a water bag could be thrust between her teeth, and then replaced; on her third day the coverlet was torn away and, with the scarf, thrown overboard; Ivar Forkbeard, on that day, watered her and, with a spoon, fed her a bit of bondmaid gruel. |
| 9 | 45 | Starving, she had snatched at it greedily. |
| 9 | 46 | "How eagerly you eat the gruel of bondmaids," he had commented. |
| 9 | 47 | Then she had refused to eat more. |
| 9 | 48 | But, the next day, to his amusement, she reached forth her mouth eagerly for the nourishment. |
| 9 | 49 | On the fifth day, and thereafter, for her feedings, he would tie her ankles and release her from the mast, her wrists then fettered before her, that she might feed herself. |