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| 24 | 250 | I View more quotes about understood">understood, too, now, I thought, why this group was in its present place, screened by the hills from the sight of the other groups. |
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| 24 | 247 | I looked wildly up, behind me, but there I saw naught but the unmoving, observing group. |
| 24 | 248 | I understood now why the guard had not come to my assistance. |
| 24 | 249 | I understood now why I had suddenly been transferred to this chain. |
| 24 | 250 | I understood, too, now, I thought, why this group was in its present place, screened by the hills from the sight of the other groups. |
| 24 | 251 | I flung myself to my belly in the sand before he whom I most feared, he whose shackle was the last on that chain of fifty strong men. |
| 24 | 252 | I would have crawled to his feet, to press my bloody lips to them, but my ankles were held. |
| 24 | 253 | "Master," I wept, "forgive me!" But, looking up from my belly, covered with sand, sand in my hair, I saw no forgiveness in his eyes. |