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| 22 | 209 | To View more quotes about return">return to our proper narrative: The lot numbers of slaves would be called out, and then, too, the circles to which they must report. |
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| 22 | 206 | Indeed, many seem to regard reading as an accomplishment ill befitting decent, serious folks, an accomplishment more appropriate, at least, to the high castes than to theirs. |
| 22 | 207 | Interestingly, too, many of the warriors, and that is a high caste, pride themselves on an inability to read, seeing that homely, and somewhat magical, skill, as one not for them, if not actually beneath them. |
| 22 | 208 | And some who can read pretend to ignorance of the skill. |
| 22 | 209 | To return to our proper narrative: The lot numbers of slaves would be called out, and then, too, the circles to which they must report. |
| 22 | 210 | Ellen knew her number, of course, as she had been told. |
| 22 | 211 | Too, those who, as Ellen, might be unfamiliar with the location of the circles, for the camp was quite large, had simply to follow their caller, one of several torch-bearing heralds leading the way to the particular circle. |
| 22 | 212 | She would, accordingly, be intent to listen carefully to the numbers, and follow any caller who had enunciated her number, which was "117". |