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| 8 | 301 | There were many fields, too, about the View more quotes about village">village. |
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| 8 | 298 | And what could one hope for? Perhaps at best to be slept at night in a hut, shackled, hand and foot, on a coarse mat? Surely I did not belong in a peasant village! I was not that sort of slave! Surely I was more the sort who should be an urban slave, lovely in a silken tunic, attracting the attention of strangers in the streets, one perhaps even permitted sandals. |
| 8 | 299 | Might I not bring a high price in a market? Too, I had little doubt that if I were so foolish as to attempt escape a second time I would be maimed, if not worse. |
| 8 | 300 | No girl could expect a master to be patience with her twice. |
| 8 | 301 | There were many fields, too, about the village. |
| 8 | 302 | They would have to be tended. |
| 8 | 303 | The days would be long, and the work hard. |
| 8 | 304 | How could they expect me to work like the larger, stronger girls? Would I not be overcome with heat and exhaustion in the fields? And would I then be lashed, or worse, for malingering? I continued toward the hut of Thurnus, my master, on my hands and knees. |