| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 832 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps, discovering she was free, unbranded, her captor would angrily rectify that omission and soon return her, stripped, bound and helpless, to the very bridge from which she had been captured, that guardsmen might find her there and remand her into custody, that she might become then a despised slave in the very city whose precincts she had sought to flee. |
| 12 | 833 | But, I wondered, would this truly displease her? To be sure, it is not pleasant to feel the lash. |
| 12 | 834 | But she would have then at last, in any event, the collar she needed, that circlet necessary to make her whole. |
| 12 | 835 | But perhaps her captor, if she seemed slave-suitable, and was sufficiently desperate and zealous in her pleadings and prostrations, might be moved to keep her, she weeping and kissing at his feet, petitioning for this privilege. |
| 12 | 836 | Much depended on many things. |
| 12 | 837 | Perhaps things would be better. |
| 12 | 838 | In any event, such things were not within our province to direct, influence or alter. |