| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 12 |
Darla took an angry stride toward Tuza but, beside herself with rage, had either failed to notice, or had forgotten, the shackles which bound her ankles, and she fell into the dirt, before Tuza. |
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| 37 | 81 |
Did this situation, chained before Tuza, I wondered, give her some sense of what it might be to be a woman before a man, or, say, a slave before a master? I feared Tuza would ram the blade into the former leader, to the hilt. |
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| 37 | 258 |
"Darla," said Tuza, "the properly deposed, worthless, meaningless slut?" "Yes," said Darla, "Darla, the properly deposed, worthless, meaningless slut begs mercy!" "If you attempt to follow us," said Tuza, "your throat will be cut". |
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| 31 | 4 |
"Feed," said Tuza, she of the green-and-brown talmit, who, I took it, was second in power in this small group of four, for the beasts do not count. |
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| 31 | 21 |
"We will be well-paid," said Tuza. |
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| 31 | 37 |
"But keep them silenced," said Tuza, "by the will of the mistress". |
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| 31 | 38 |
Tuza then, switch in hand, went to us, who were kneeling to the side, neck-roped, wrists crossed before us. |
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| 31 | 43 |
"How dare you speak without permission?" said Tuza. |
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| 31 | 46 |
"You saw," snapped Tuza, "she raised her head, before a free person, without permission!" "True," said Darla. |
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| 31 | 70 |
"Ho! Move!" The first stroke of Tuza's switch was across the left shoulder, and the second a lashing sting across the back of the thighs. |
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| 31 | 74 |
Tuza would not be sparing with her switch. |
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| 31 | 76 |
Tuza's switch fell again. |
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| 31 | 77 |
"Harta!" said Tuza. |
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| 31 | 78 |
"Harta!" "You see, dear Tuza," said Darla, "how much more swiftly we can move with a third bearer". |
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| 31 | 79 |
"Harta!" said Tuza. |
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| 31 | 82 |
"Harta!" said Tuza. |
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| 33 | 73 |
Tuza carefully returned the golden bowls to the pack. |
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| 33 | 75 |
Tuza angrily thrust the fourth bowl into the pack. |
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| 33 | 114 |
"Ho," said Tuza, reaching into a pack. |
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| 33 | 118 |
Small golden goblets, matching the bowls, emerged, and Tuza poured ka-la-na into each. |
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| 33 | 127 |
"Have more wine," said Tuza to Darla, holding the bottle toward her. |
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| 33 | 132 |
Tuza corked the bottle, rose up, and loosed the switch from her belt. |
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| 33 | 147 |
"They are prepared," said Tuza. |
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| 33 | 157 |
We knew Tuza was behind us. |
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| 33 | 158 |
Then we cried out with pain as Tuza gave each of us, with her long switch, two strokes across the back of our thighs. |
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| 35 | 11 |
Tuza had plied Darla with ka-la-na, even more than the others. |
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| 35 | 25 |
I did not see Tuza. |
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| 35 | 27 |
Tuza was short-tempered. |
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| 35 | 38 |
I had had the sense, from the evening, though to be sure I was facing away, my head to the left, my right cheek on the dirt, that Tuza may not have drunk as deeply as the others. |
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| 35 | 46 |
But where was Tuza? She was not in her blankets. |
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| 35 | 49 |
I then saw Tuza emerge, like a shadow, from the forest. |
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| 35 | 61 |
Tuza had slipped to her knees beside Darla, lifted her hands over her head, grasping the dark object, which was a heavy stone, and struck downward. |
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| 35 | 63 |
Tuza put the stone to one side, and drew out her knife. |
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| 35 | 64 |
I realized clearly that Tuza, had she wished, might have broken open the skull of her victim, killing her instantly, but had controlled the blow, for, it seemed, she had other plans for the leader of the band of Darla. |
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| 35 | 65 |
I saw Tuza look toward me, but she did no more than smile. |
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| 35 | 74 |
Tuza then snapped a pair of ankle shackles on the unconscious Darla. |
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| 35 | 76 |
Tuza then, apparently muchly satisfied with herself, stood up, stirred the fire, and threw upon it much of the fuel we had gathered earlier in the preceding evening. |
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| 35 | 81 |
"Awaken, slothful sisters!" cried Tuza. |
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| 35 | 82 |
"Donna is avenged! Welcome to the band of Tuza". |
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| 35 | 83 |
Hiza leaped up, drawing her knife, but Tuza faced her, her own knife drawn, and ready. |
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| 35 | 84 |
Tuza crouched like a panther, the blade of her knife at her knee, blade upward. |
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| 35 | 87 |
"Darla is defeated," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 96 |
"Do you wish to do contest?" asked Tuza. |
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| 35 | 99 |
"What Darla did to Donna," cried Tuza, "I have now done to Darla! Let it be so. |
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| 35 | 104 |
You collaborated with Darla, to oust Donna, that you should receive the gift of the lieutenancy!" Tuza fixed her eyes on Hiza. |
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| 35 | 107 |
And Tuza turned her attention to Emerald. |
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| 35 | 109 |
"Who is leader?" asked Tuza. |
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| 35 | 113 |
"I did not choose to do so," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 117 |
"Of course not," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 120 |
"Of course," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 125 |
"You will fetch her, both of you," said Tuza, "but first arrange the slaves. |
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| 35 | 132 |
Tuza regarded us. |
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| 35 | 137 |
"Changes have occurred in the camp," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 139 |
It is Tuza. |
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| 35 | 151 |
"You are poor stock," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 163 |
Tuza, I feared, bore me some particular animosity. |
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| 35 | 165 |
Tuza then spun about, and faced Hiza. |
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| 35 | 172 |
"Good," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 174 |
"Fetch the garbage," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 176 |
"No," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 182 |
Hiza and Emerald, half lifting, half dragging, brought the inert body of Darla to the center of the camp, and put it where Tuza indicated, at her feet. |
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| 35 | 185 |
"See," said Tuza, "she is alive. |
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| 35 | 190 |
"No," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 193 |
"That is work for slaves," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 195 |
"Let her be washed by slaves, as a slave," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 199 |
"Remove it from Tula, but put her in rope shackles," said Tuza. |
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| 35 | 203 |
"Certainly," said Tuza, "for one would not wish them to stray, to be eaten by panthers". |
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| 35 | 204 |
"We shall have a splendid time," said Tuza, "before we begin the trek". |
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| 35 | 206 |
"You will see," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 6 |
"Behold!" called Tuza, from across the site. |
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| 37 | 8 |
"Or is it," said Tuza, approaching, "merely an escaped slave, wandered in from the forest?" "Release me!" demanded Darla. |
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| 37 | 11 |
"Give them to me! I demand to be released! I demand my clothing! Remove these constraints! Give me my weapons! Where are my ornaments?" "Some are here," said Tuza, lifting her left arm, with its armlets and several bracelets, while, with her right hand, she lifted and fingered, exhibiting them, the ... |
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| 37 | 13 |
"Get up," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 14 |
Darla struggled to her feet, and stood facing Tuza, shaking with fury. |
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| 37 | 15 |
"I wonder if men would like her," said Tuza, regarding her former leader. |
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| 37 | 17 |
"She is still filthy," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 23 |
"Clean her," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 49 |
Clearly it was intended by Tuza as an insult. |
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| 37 | 55 |
"Continue," said Tuza, and we resumed our ministrations, however reluctantly. |
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| 37 | 57 |
"Good," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 61 |
"Good," said Tuza, "you are almost as presentable as a naked slave". |
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| 37 | 62 |
"Free my hands, free my ankles," cried Darla, "and give me a dagger, a javelin!" "I like you as you are," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 63 |
"Let us do contest," cried Darla, "in the manner of the Panther Women!" "I would not soil my javelin on you," said Tuza, "pretty Darla". |
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| 37 | 65 |
"Now that I look upon you, better groomed," said Tuza, "I think men might find you of some interest". |
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| 37 | 69 |
"Look," said Tuza, "she is crying!" "No, no, I am not!" wept Darla. |
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| 37 | 71 |
Could it be, I wondered, that she was a female, truly a female? Tuza drew forth her dagger, and put its point to the bosom of Darla. |
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| 37 | 73 |
"You are afraid," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 83 |
"Stand straighter," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 85 |
"Excellent," said Tuza, "you are standing almost as well as a slave". |
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| 37 | 87 |
"Do you wonder what has become of you, what has been done to you?" asked Tuza. |
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| 37 | 89 |
"I thought free women were clothed," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 90 |
"Please, Tuza!" wept Darla. |
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| 37 | 91 |
"Do not dare to speak my name!" said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 93 |
Tuza stepped back, and indicated Darla with the point of her knife. |
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| 37 | 96 |
Is she so mighty now! See her as she is, stripped, chained, and shackled, frightened, in tears, only a woman!" Then Tuza turned back to Darla. |
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| 37 | 98 |
Darla knelt, and looked up at Tuza. |
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| 37 | 100 |
"What is to be my fate?" "You will learn later," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 106 |
"Will it be necessary to gag you?" asked Tuza. |
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| 37 | 108 |
"You might look well in a gag," said Tuza, "pretty one". |
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| 37 | 110 |
"You have gagged enough slaves," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 115 |
"Eat well, kajirae," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 122 |
We were standing by our burdens, I think about the eighth Ahn, awaiting the command to bear them, when Tuza drew out her knife, went to Darla, seized her by the hair, bent her head back, and put the blade of the knife to her throat. |
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| 37 | 123 |
"What is to be done with you?" asked Tuza. |
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| 37 | 126 |
"Do my ears deceive me?" laughed Tuza. |
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| 37 | 132 |
Tuza sheathed her dagger, slapped her thigh, and turned, laughing, to Hiza and Emerald. |
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| 37 | 145 |
Tuza then was no longer laughing but, furious, she freed her switch from her belt, rushed upon Darla, and switched her, again and again. |
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| 37 | 146 |
Though we were not struck, Tula, Mila, and myself cringed, reacting to each stroke, for we had felt the switch of Tuza, and well knew its air-parting hiss, its crack, and sting. |
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| 37 | 149 |
"Do not call me 'Mistress'!" screamed Tuza, and gave her another stroke. |
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| 37 | 152 |
"No," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 155 |
You became second! We sold her together!" "I have something else in mind for you," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 156 |
"Do you think I would permit you the ignominy, the degradation, the raptures, of the kajira?" Darla, laying on her side, miserable, her body well inscribed with the bright records of Tuza's displeasure, looked up at her, confused, and frightened. |
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| 37 | 157 |
"Put her on her knees, that she may hear her fate," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 158 |
Hiza and Emerald positioned Darla before Tuza. |
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| 37 | 159 |
"Prepare to hear your sentence," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 161 |
"You have been defeated," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 163 |
"No more than when we leapt upon Donna in her sleep, and bound her," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 165 |
"No," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 167 |
"I am now ready to pronounce your sentence," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 170 |
"Speak," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 204 |
Tuza looked at Darla, thoughtfully. |
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| 37 | 206 |
Hiza untied the talmit from Darla's ankles, and handed it to Tuza. |
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| 37 | 211 |
How helpless we are in such things! Tuza spread the talmit out. |
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| 37 | 213 |
"Stay on your knees," said Tuza, and she then wrapped the talmit about her own brow. |
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| 37 | 217 |
"Prepare to hear your sentence," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 219 |
"You will be driven from the camp," said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 223 |
"Get out," said Tuza, lifting her switch. |
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| 37 | 225 |
"Give me a weapon, if only a knife!" "Away, slut," snarled Tuza, lifting the switch. |
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| 37 | 232 |
Tuza turned back to face Hiza and Emerald. |
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| 37 | 247 |
"Must you be switched from the camp?" inquired Tuza. |
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| 37 | 255 |
Sell me if you wish! Take me with you! I beg mercy!" "Who begs mercy?" said Tuza. |
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| 37 | 256 |
"I beg mercy!" "Who?" inquired Tuza. |
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| 37 | 261 |
"Prepare to trek," said Tuza, lifting her hand. |
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| 37 | 278 |
"Donna!" cried Tuza. |
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| 38 | 210 |
"There should be two others," said the slave, "Darla and Tuza. |
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| 39 | 1 |
"Prepare to trek," had said Tuza, and she had lifted her hand. |
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| 39 | 5 |
Tuza had not even lowered her hand. |
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| 39 | 9 |
What exultancy, what triumph, had there been in that voice! "Donna!" had cried Tuza. |
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| 39 | 16 |
Turning about I saw Tuza standing, stupefied. |
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| 39 | 74 |
Tuza, weaponless, had been put to her belly in the center of the camp. |
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| 39 | 75 |
Soon, in virtue of the keys surrendered by Tuza, Darla, now relieved of her impediments, and her ankles freed of the ankle shackling, lay beside her. |
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| 39 | 76 |
Then Emerald, at a gesture from her captor, put herself in place, prone, beside Tuza and Darla. |
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| 39 | 159 |
"No, please, no!" whimpered Tuza, as her skins were cut away. |
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| 39 | 160 |
Darla needed not be subjected to this attention, of course, as she had been similarly served, following Tuza's victorious usurpation of leadership. |
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| 39 | 182 |
"Release us," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 191 |
Darla turned angrily to Tuza. |
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| 39 | 193 |
"There are forces involved," said the leader to Tuza and Darla, "which you do not understand, nor, fully, do we. |
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| 39 | 200 |
He then turned to Tuza. |
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| 39 | 205 |
"No!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 209 |
"We have seen it," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 217 |
She carried Tuza's switch. |
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| 39 | 219 |
"You, Darla and Tuza, set upon me, bound me, and took me to the coast, where you sold me". |
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| 39 | 220 |
Neither Darla nor Tuza responded. |
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| 39 | 224 |
I gather then that loyal Tuza betrayed her new leader, as she and Darla did Donna, their former leader". |
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| 39 | 226 |
"And you," she said, "stood by while I was deposed, just as, I would suppose, you did when noble Tuza put noble Darla aside, even to chains". |
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| 39 | 228 |
"Darla and Tuza are stronger, quicker. |
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| 39 | 230 |
"Tuza drugged Darla," said Hiza. |
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| 39 | 232 |
"Are javelins in the forest no longer in order; are sticks no longer available to draw a killing circle, a circle of decision, in the camp?" "Away, slave!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 235 |
"This is Tuza's switch," she said. |
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| 39 | 238 |
"She does not kneel," said Tuza, frightened. |
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| 39 | 240 |
"It is her reward," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 252 |
"Slave!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 257 |
"Who knows," said Donna to Tuza and Darla, "the time may come when you two will beg to lick a master's thigh". |
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| 39 | 279 |
"Do you think it wise," said Tuza, rubbing her wrists, "that we should be granted such freedom? We are Panther Women". |
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| 39 | 281 |
"Of course," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 283 |
"Are we not?" asked Tuza. |
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| 39 | 285 |
"You would dare to grant us the freedom of our hands?" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 287 |
"But why?" asked Tuza. |
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| 39 | 289 |
"I do not understand," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 292 |
"You cannot be serious," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 294 |
"We dare not go into the forest shackled, naked, and unarmed," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 298 |
"Give us clothing," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 303 |
"Please," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 306 |
"Not the bundling absurdities inflicted on allegedly free women!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 309 |
"When such come to us, we sell them," scoffed Tuza. |
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| 39 | 313 |
"They are not large, strong, hard, and coarse," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 315 |
"No longer," said Tuza, scornfully. |
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| 39 | 317 |
"Slave!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 319 |
"No!" said Tuza and Darla. |
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| 39 | 321 |
"Do not put us in the garmenture of the women of the cities," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 324 |
"No!" wept Tuza. |
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| 39 | 327 |
"Cruel slave!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 330 |
"You are clothed!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 334 |
"It is scarcely a scrap of cloth," said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 338 |
"Clothe us!" begged Tuza. |
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| 39 | 340 |
Tuza, turning, on her knees, pointed to us. |
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| 39 | 343 |
"One for me," said Tuza, "one for Darla, and let Emerald and Hiza cast a moistened pebble for the last". |
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| 39 | 373 |
"Never!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 375 |
Tuza bent down, low, her body trembling, her hands over her head, her hair to the dirt, and began to cry. |
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| 39 | 377 |
Donna gave Tuza two more strokes. |
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| 39 | 390 |
"But we are free women!" cried Tuza. |
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| 39 | 393 |
"I will not be collared," cried Tuza. |
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| 39 | 395 |
"What?" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 406 |
What a fine price she might bring! "Like slaves!" said Tuza, regarding Hiza and Emerald with contempt. |
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| 39 | 407 |
"You, next," said Donna to Tuza, and the switch was thrust against her lips. |
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| 39 | 408 |
"No!" said Tuza. |
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| 39 | 410 |
Tuza then, as had Hiza and Emerald, kissed the switch. |
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| 39 | 413 |
"Mistress," said Donna, to Darla, and Darla, then, as had Tuza, kissed the switch. |
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| 39 | 416 |
I saw from the reaction of Tuza and Darla that they had some sense of what the difference would have been. |
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| 39 | 531 |
"Kill it!" cried Tuza. |
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| 39 | 548 |
"Kill it!" begged Tuza. |
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| 39 | 557 |
"She was a runaway!" screamed Tuza. |
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| 40 | 86 |
I do not think Darla and Tuza would do as well". |
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| 41 | 490 |
Now it was my opportunity to scorn, and torture, him I then became aware, lifting my head a little, that Donna, two guards, and the four prisoners, the Panther Women, Darla, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza, had returned to the camp. |
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| 42 | 69 |
Darla and Tuza would serve Donna, who was first girl, and Emerald and Hiza would serve Tula, Mila, and myself. |
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| 42 | 70 |
Tuza, smugly, a small smile about her lips, approached Donna. |
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| 42 | 72 |
"It is an accident!" said Tuza, now alarmed. |
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| 42 | 76 |
Tuza, shackled, helpless, was on the ground, rolling, and weeping. |
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| 42 | 79 |
"Please, no!" wept Tuza. |
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| 42 | 82 |
"No, please, no!" begged Tuza. |
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| 42 | 85 |
Tuza, weeping in misery, with a rattle of chain, crawled away. |
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| 42 | 89 |
It might be noted that the men did not much notice, and they certainly did not interfere in the altercation which took place between Donna and Tuza. |
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| 42 | 111 |
Doubtless they had profited vicariously from the lesson which Donna had administered to the unwise and errant Tuza. |
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| 43 | 22 |
She and the three other prisoners, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza had been knelt, as noted, near the center of the camp. |
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| 43 | 94 |
"Free us, free us!" cried Tuza. |
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| 43 | 98 |
Tuza drew back, angrily. |
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| 43 | 142 |
"No, no!" cried Tuza, despite the monition earlier accorded her. |
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| 43 | 154 |
"We are women, spare us, spare us!" wept Tuza. |
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| 43 | 170 |
"Mercy!" cried Tuza. |
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| 43 | 179 |
"I am a slave!" said Tuza. |
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| 43 | 186 |
"As the slave I am, I beg a collar, Master," said Tuza. |
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| 43 | 229 |
"They watch for such things, as they pass," said Tuza. |
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| 43 | 244 |
Tuza put down her head, and moaned. |
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| 43 | 249 |
The former Panther Girls, now slaves, Darla, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza screamed, and tried to pull back. |
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| 43 | 331 |
"We beg mercy of our masters," said Tuza. |
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| 43 | 390 |
"Yes, Master!" said Tuza. |
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| 43 | 536 |
"Please, Mistress," begged Tuza, "food!" "That is up to the masters," said Donna. |
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| 43 | 1042 |
"You see those four slaves," said Axel, "those on the neck rope, who have not yet earned tunics?" Here he indicated Darla, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza. |
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| 45 | 22 |
Tula and Mila had left with Genserich's band, and Darla, Tuza, Emerald, and Hiza, were on their way to the coast. |
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