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| 4 | 443 | I saw drovers, View more quotes about holding">holding the reins of their beasts, shading their eyes, looking over the dust to the east. |
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| 4 | 440 | Reassured I was to see points riding out about the caravan, outriders, to guard against such surprise. |
| 4 | 441 | I saw Farouk, merchant and caravan master, ride by, burnoose swirling behind him, lance in hand. |
| 4 | 442 | With him were six men. |
| 4 | 443 | I saw drovers, holding the reins of their beasts, shading their eyes, looking over the dust to the east. |
| 4 | 444 | One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind her body, the larger one about her left ankle; the rings are separated by about six inches of chain; they are not sleeping hobbles, which confine only the ankles; then he would rush to the next kurdah, fling a hobble to the next girl, and repeat his command. |
| 4 | 445 | I rode down the caravan until I came to Alyena's kurdah. |
| 4 | 446 | She thrust her head out, veiled, her fists holding apart the rep-cloth curtain. |