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| 12 | 624 | In the View more quotes about situation">situation, as I assessed it, either she should have been given to me, upon my expression of interest, or I should have paid something for her in increments of silver tarsks, something over the price Msaliti had paid. |
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| 12 | 621 | "I will take six tarsks for her," said he, "if you are serious in the matter". |
| 12 | 622 | I gave Msaliti six silver tarsks for the girl. |
| 12 | 623 | She was then mine. |
| 12 | 624 | In the situation, as I assessed it, either she should have been given to me, upon my expression of interest, or I should have paid something for her in increments of silver tarsks, something over the price Msaliti had paid. |
| 12 | 625 | Things turned out much as I had expected. |
| 12 | 626 | I did not think Msaliti, truly, whom I took to be a shrewd, clever fellow, and one concerned with matters of wealth and power, would wish to give a girl away. |
| 12 | 627 | Too, since he had paid for her in silver tarsks he would wish to sell her in the same denomination and, presumably, at some profit. |