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| 12 | 166 | "You two, too, will be so designated!" Then she View more quotes about cried">cried, "Go! Go to your alcoves, Slaves! Go!" The men, some of them frightened, with the exception of Hassan who sat, puzzled, by the side of the bath, scurried to their tiny alcoves. |
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| 12 | 163 | She glanced at the males about, in their silk. |
| 12 | 164 | "Each," said she, "all of them have such names, the names of girls". |
| 12 | 165 | She glared at Hassan, and myself. |
| 12 | 166 | "You two, too, will be so designated!" Then she cried, "Go! Go to your alcoves, Slaves! Go!" The men, some of them frightened, with the exception of Hassan who sat, puzzled, by the side of the bath, scurried to their tiny alcoves. |
| 12 | 167 | The two girls, in white garments, as I had come to understand, were dominant in the seraglio, rather in the nature of eunuchs, imposing order upon it and keeping its slaves in harmonious discipline. |
| 12 | 168 | Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backed by the power of Tarna's guards, these two beautiful women were dominant over the men; they, particularly the taller, dark-haired one, obviously despised the silken males in her charge; openly she held them, to their misery, in contempt. |
| 12 | 169 | We heard the outer gate of the seraglio, at the far end of the corridor, being pounded on. |