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| 20 | 387 | She had not View more quotes about received">received her opportunity to surrender herself to them, begging from them the desperate boon and privilege of reduction to absolute slavery. |
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| 20 | 384 | I then saw, a rope on her neck, her hands thonged behind her back, still veiled, still clad in the provocative rags which had been those of the former Lady Publia, Lady Claudia. |
| 20 | 385 | She had been caught among the crowds of women and children on the pier, perhaps noted by the wounded Marsias, or one of the others who had been with us in the cell, or perhaps by others still, alerted by one or the other of them, as to her probable disguise. |
| 20 | 386 | The Cosians had not come to the piers. |
| 20 | 387 | She had not received her opportunity to surrender herself to them, begging from them the desperate boon and privilege of reduction to absolute slavery. |
| 20 | 388 | Among others boarding the flagship, too, in her improvised hood, naked, her hands, too, thonged behind her back, as I had fastened them earlier, being pulled on her leash by one free woman, being herded from behind, poked and jabbed, and struck, with a stick by another, stumbling, ascending the narrow plank to the flagship, was a slave, one who had once been Lady Publia of Ar's Station. |
| 20 | 389 | I saw her lose her footing once on the plank and fall, belly downward on it, her legs on either side of it. |
| 20 | 390 | She must have been utterly terrified, in the darkness of the hood, helpless, unable even to cry out. |