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| 25 | 209 | That is the way I had View more quotes about anticipated">anticipated things would proceed. |
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| 25 | 206 | I had thought that things would have worked out much more simply. |
| 25 | 207 | I had expected him to be outraged with Milo and be ready, in effect, to kill him, at which point I was prepared to intervene, with a princely offer. |
| 25 | 208 | If he were rational, and the offer was attractive enough, as it could be, as I had a fortune in gold with me, I could obtain the slave. |
| 25 | 209 | That is the way I had anticipated things would proceed. |
| 25 | 210 | If Appanius would not sell Milo, then I could simply keep Appanius, and the others, with the exception of Milo, bound and gagged somewhere, say, in the pantry in the back, and use Milo, still the slave of Appanius, to achieve my objective in a slightly different fashion, one then merely involving two steps rather than one. |
| 25 | 211 | If he would not sell Milo, certainly he would be willing to sell another, one who might, for a time at least, be too dangerous to acknowledge, too dangerous to free, too dangerous to keep. |
| 25 | 212 | "Perhaps," I said. |