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| 10 | 195 | "The breaking of a well," said the merchant, "is an View more quotes about almost">almost inconceivable criminal act". |
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| 10 | 192 | Rooms in private dwellings, in the Tahari, if rich, usually are floored with costly rugs. |
| 10 | 193 | The rooms are seldom crossed directly, in order to prevent undue wear on the rugs; long strips of ruglike material line the edges of the room; these are commonly used in moving from room to room; children, servants, slaves, women, commonly negotiate the rooms by keeping on the runners, near the walls. |
| 10 | 194 | Men commonly do also, if guests are not present. |
| 10 | 195 | "The breaking of a well," said the merchant, "is an almost inconceivable criminal act". |
| 10 | 196 | Neither of us, Hassan, nor myself, responded to him. |
| 10 | 197 | What he said was true. |
| 10 | 198 | Earlier, though it had not been our original intention, following our commercial interaction, in which Hassan had exchanged his plunder, flesh and otherwise, for gold, we had been conducted by the merchant to the well, shattered, perhaps ruined. |