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| 20 | 214 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps they are now in an area which they regard as sensitive, an area in which they would not care to risk the bleating of a verr, the cry of a slave. |
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| 20 | 211 | What part she might play in their plan, or plans, she had not been informed. |
| 20 | 212 | She recalled the saying that curiosity was not becoming in a slave girl, a saying which had always seemed ironic to her, because, to the best of her knowledge, amongst such eager, bright, lively creatures, an avid curiosity was endemic. |
| 20 | 213 | If you were a chained slave, often deliberately kept in ignorance, would you not be zealous to be apprised of the least tidbit of news, for example, that you were to be transported, sold or mated? Why have they gagged me, wondered Ellen. |
| 20 | 214 | Perhaps they are now in an area which they regard as sensitive, an area in which they would not care to risk the bleating of a verr, the cry of a slave. |
| 20 | 215 | She shuddered. |
| 20 | 216 | She had great difficulty in sleeping for a time, but, late in the afternoon, in the warmth, the sunlight descending gently, lazily, amongst the trees, she fell asleep. |
| 20 | 217 | She awakened once, hearing Portus inquire of Tersius Major where he had been, and, drowsily, heard his reply, that he had gone for water. |