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| 9 | 225 | I was annoyed, too, and View more quotes about puzzled">puzzled, that they spoke of her as the most beautiful of all, for, as far as I could see from my sturdy, small, snug, barred confinement, I was far more beautiful. |
| 9 | 226 | In the late afternoon, surprising me, there was a sudden cessation of activity on the wharf in our vicinity, and, as precipitately, a lull in conversation. |
| 9 | 227 | Vendors were quiet, men ceased calling out to one another, stevedores put down their bundles, men ceased speaking, and all drew to the sides, clearing a path between the bales and crates, and the cages. |
| 9 | 228 | One figure, alone, high sandaled, clad in a black tunic, caped, a blade at his left hip, a black helmet cradled in his left arm, approached. |
| 9 | 229 | The hitherto-crowded aisle, the linear center of the wharf, now seemed abandoned. |
| 9 | 230 | Men on each side watched the stranger's approach. |
| 9 | 231 | His gait was unhurried, measured. |