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| 42 | 15 | I had then View more quotes about hurried">hurried, belled, to join the others, kneeling in the shadows. |
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| 42 | 12 | Then, would there not be time to reach the parapet, crush resistance, and reach the safety of the waiting barges? I and the other slaves, by means of a narrow, obscure stairway, one of those different from the open, broader stairwells which a column of men might ascend abreast, had now reached the inner vestibule of the holding, adjacent to the outer vestibule, that closest to the canal gate. |
| 42 | 13 | I was the last to reach it, and be admitted through the hastily constructed barricade which essentially sealed it off from the holding as a whole, for, being bound, I had been obliged to move with great care on the steep, narrow stairs. |
| 42 | 14 | "Be with the other slaves," had said a man, gesturing to the side of the inner vestibule. |
| 42 | 15 | I had then hurried, belled, to join the others, kneeling in the shadows. |
| 42 | 16 | A few were tunicked. |
| 42 | 17 | They, I gathered, had not required a rescuing from the intruders. |
| 42 | 18 | Some slaves I did not see. |