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| 16 | 564 | View more quotes about once">Once there passed through the square a palanquin, borne by large, powerful, tunicked men. |
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| 16 | 561 | How could she even think of comparing herself with them? But are they, such lofty, proud creatures, happy, she wondered. |
| 16 | 562 | She wondered, too, how many of them might one day find themselves chained in a market, or grasping the bars of a slave cage, or looking up fearfully, trembling, kneeling and bound, into the eyes of a master, to read their fate. |
| 16 | 563 | She recalled a saying she had heard in the house, that beneath the clothes of every woman there is to be found the body of a naked slave. |
| 16 | 564 | Once there passed through the square a palanquin, borne by large, powerful, tunicked men. |
| 16 | 565 | In the palanquin there indolently reposed a free woman. |
| 16 | 566 | She recalled the woman seized by the tarnsman from Brundisium and wondered if she, too, had once been carried in such a palanquin. |
| 16 | 567 | That woman now, perhaps, with Laura, heeled her master in Brundisium, some paces behind, and to his left. |