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| 5 | 161 | And then to my astonishment the View more quotes about rence">rence girls, squealing and laughing, some protesting and being pushed and shoved, rose to their feet and entered the clearing in the circle. |
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| 5 | 158 | Then, suddenly, the crowd stopped clapping and singing. |
| 5 | 159 | There was silence. |
| 5 | 160 | Then there came a drumming sound, growing louder and louder, a man pounding on a hollowed drum of rence root with two sticks, and then, as suddenly as the singing and clapping, the drum, too, stopped. |
| 5 | 161 | And then to my astonishment the rence girls, squealing and laughing, some protesting and being pushed and shoved, rose to their feet and entered the clearing in the circle. |
| 5 | 162 | The young men shouted with pleasure. |
| 5 | 163 | One or two of the girls, giggling, tried to slip away, fleeing, but young men, laughing, caught them, and hurled them into the clearing of the circle. |
| 5 | 164 | Then the rence girls, vital, eyes shining, breathing deeply, barefoot, bare-armed, many with beads worn for festival, and hammered copper bracelets and armlets, stood all within the circle. |