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| 19 | 127 | One by one, View more quotes about slowly">slowly, almost tenderly, on their strings, Bila Huruma lifted the tiny osts from the floor of the pit and placed them, one by one, in the basket near the foot of the sleeping platform. |
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| 19 | 124 | "Who hired you?" asked Bila Huruma. |
| 19 | 125 | "No one hired me," I said. |
| 19 | 126 | "I did not know this was your chamber". |
| 19 | 127 | One by one, slowly, almost tenderly, on their strings, Bila Huruma lifted the tiny osts from the floor of the pit and placed them, one by one, in the basket near the foot of the sleeping platform. |
| 19 | 128 | "Are you of that caste called assassins?" he asked. |
| 19 | 129 | "No," I said. |
| 19 | 130 | He held the last of the osts on its string, suspended, about five feet from the floor of the pit. |