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| 42 | 103 | But could they not, if this were their intent, strangle me View more quotes about first">first, utilizing some convenient string or cord, or smother me with a blanket or cushion, one easily found, perhaps one almost at hand, or even enter a blade swiftly, mercifully, into my heart? Surely that would not be difficult. |
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| 42 | 100 | "Cast it into the foulest carnarium!" I struggled inside the box. |
| 42 | 101 | I whimpered madly. |
| 42 | 102 | It would be only too easy, in the dead of the night, to bury the box somewhere outside the walls, in some remote place, or to cast it into one of the carnaria, the refuse pits outside the wall, into which garbage, and excrement, and all filth, as from the emptying of the giant vats of the insulae, might be thrown. |
| 42 | 103 | But could they not, if this were their intent, strangle me first, utilizing some convenient string or cord, or smother me with a blanket or cushion, one easily found, perhaps one almost at hand, or even enter a blade swiftly, mercifully, into my heart? Surely that would not be difficult. |
| 42 | 104 | They were armed! "Before such things are considered," said one of the men, "we must make certain that she is the correct slave". |
| 42 | 105 | I turned my head to the right, in misery, looking wildly through the tiny perforations at Aynur. |
| 42 | 106 | "She answers the description," said Aynur. |