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| 11 | 89 | Oddly View more quotes about enough">enough he permitted no one near him at such times but the collared slave girl, Alyena. |
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| 11 | 86 | Then, it seems suddenly, the sky is black and wide and high and is rich with the reflected sands of stars, like clear bright diamonds burning in the soft, sable silence of the desert's innocent quietude. |
| 11 | 87 | At these times, Hassan, cross-legged, would sometimes sit silently before his tent. |
| 11 | 88 | We did not then disturb him. |
| 11 | 89 | Oddly enough he permitted no one near him at such times but the collared slave girl, Alyena. |
| 11 | 90 | She alone, only female and slave, would be beside him, lying beside him, her head at his left knee. |
| 11 | 91 | Sometimes he would, in these times, stroke her hair, or touch the side of her face, almost gently, almost as though her throat were not encircled by a collar. |
| 11 | 92 | Then, after the stars would be high for an Ahn or so, he would, suddenly, laughing, seize the girl by the arms and throw her on her back on the mats, thrust up her dress and rape her as the mere slave she was. |