| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 167 | I would be View more quotes about left">left, helplessly bound, by the court, presumably at the edge of the moat, before the then-raised drawbridge. |
| 26 | 168 | Apparently no reward would be expected, or proffered. |
| 26 | 169 | On the other hand, court slaves, when sent forth from the court, were commonly tunicked nondescriptly and opaquely, and put in a collar that did bear a legend. |
| 26 | 170 | That legend, I was informed, would return me to an address unlikely to be recognized as having anything to do with the black court, from which address I would then be, in due time, returned to the court. |
| 26 | 171 | "Why now?" I asked. |
| 26 | 172 | "Our first girl," she said, "was not pleased to have been switched by Porus, the salt merchant". |
| 26 | 173 | "We are seldom pleased to be switched," I said. |