| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 308 |
"Greetings, Iwoso," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 2 | 327 |
"Iwoso is a Yellow Knife," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 2 | 331 |
The girl, Iwoso, did not wear a collar. |
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| 2 | 333 |
"Iwoso has high status with the Isanna," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 2 | 336 |
The name 'Iwoso', incidentally, means "Pouting Lips". |
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| 2 | 354 |
"Do you remember her, Iwoso?" asked the girl on the kaiila of the girl at her stirrup. |
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| 2 | 355 |
"No," said Iwoso. |
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| 2 | 356 |
"Iwoso!" protested Cuwignaka. |
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| 2 | 393 |
"Is she not pretty, Iwoso?" asked Bloketu. |
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| 2 | 394 |
"Yes," said Iwoso. |
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| 2 | 398 |
"Perhaps," laughed Iwoso. |
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| 2 | 409 |
"How often does such a meeting take place? Who would wish to miss it? Too, I wanted to see the white slaves, and Bloketu and Iwoso". |
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| 2 | 414 |
"What of Bloketu and Iwoso?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 419 |
"Iwoso is already a slave," I said. |
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| 2 | 424 |
Iwoso did not even wear a collar. |
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| 5 | 118 |
"But why is she wearing the dress of a white woman?" "Perhaps she is a white female slave," said Iwoso. |
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| 5 | 120 |
Greetings, Iwoso," said Cuwignaka, grinning. |
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| 5 | 123 |
I noted that both Bloketu and Iwoso were suitably impressed with this. |
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| 5 | 129 |
"Iwoso is slow," said Bloketu. |
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| 5 | 130 |
"I am not slow," protested Iwoso. |
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| 5 | 135 |
Iwoso, her head down, smiled. |
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| 5 | 148 |
"Come, Iwoso, my dear maiden," said Bloketu, "let us go. |
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| 5 | 152 |
Iwoso looked up, suddenly, her eyes blazing. |
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| 5 | 174 |
He then turned his attention to the lovely Iwoso. |
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| 5 | 185 |
Iwoso looked down, angrily. |
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| 5 | 189 |
"He struck you well!" said Iwoso, angrily. |
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| 5 | 211 |
The two women, then, Bloketu and Iwoso, the travois poles marking the grass behind their kaiila, took their way away. |
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| 6 | 102 |
We knew that these words of Hci, to that extent, could be sworn to by Bloketu and Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 1 |
Bloketu and Iwoso Come Visiting "He beat me," wailed Winyela, running up to me. |
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| 7 | 528 |
"Bloketu and Iwoso are in the vicinity," I said. |
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| 7 | 547 |
"Oh, Iwoso," called out Bloketu, coming up, "here is that pretty girl we met on the prairie, you know, the one in the white-woman's dress". |
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| 7 | 548 |
"I remember," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 549 |
"She had cut so much meat! The poles of the travois even bent!" "Yes," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 550 |
Iwoso looked behind her, as if she expected to see someone. |
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| 7 | 553 |
Iwoso laughed. |
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| 7 | 555 |
"Yes," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 559 |
"It is he again," whispered Iwoso to Bloketu, looking behind her. |
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| 7 | 568 |
He looked at Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 569 |
"If you wish to court Iwoso," said Bloketu, "you may come to the lodge tonight and sit outside, cross-legged, playing the love flute. |
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| 7 | 572 |
"It is not necessary to follow Iwoso about like a panting sleen," said Bloketu. |
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| 7 | 578 |
"He was spying on us," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 599 |
"It would be for such a reason that you would take the Yellow-Knife slave with you," said Hci, looking at Iwoso, "to converse with them". |
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| 7 | 600 |
"Slave!" cried Iwoso, angrily. |
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| 7 | 606 |
And Iwoso has been very helpful. |
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| 7 | 632 |
"That is probably true," said Hci, regarding Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 662 |
Iwoso looked up. |
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| 7 | 665 |
Iwoso, again, put down her head. |
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| 7 | 667 |
You were only pretending to do so! You are a sly young fellow! You wanted an excuse to follow Iwoso!" "No," said Hci. |
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| 7 | 669 |
"I know you find Iwoso attractive," said Bloketu, laughing. |
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| 7 | 677 |
"Perhaps, Iwoso," said Bloketu, "I will let Hci court you". |
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| 7 | 678 |
"No, please, no!" said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 682 |
"Then I shall decide," said Bloketu to Iwoso, "whether or not you shall accept him". |
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| 7 | 683 |
"No, please," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 685 |
"No," said Iwoso, miserably. |
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| 7 | 691 |
"Do you want Iwoso?" asked Bloketu, angrily, of Hci. |
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| 7 | 700 |
"Bloketu!" protested Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 706 |
"Do not let him court me," begged Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 708 |
"Please, no," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 713 |
"I would rather," said Iwoso, "that you did not permit him to court me at all". |
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| 7 | 718 |
"I am only a slave," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 721 |
"Please do not let him court me," begged Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 723 |
"Yes, Bloketu," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 725 |
"Yes," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 728 |
"You are free, and the daughter of a chief," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 732 |
"If you were a slave, you, too, would know fear," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 734 |
"We are owned," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 741 |
"If you permit Hci to court me," begged Iwoso, "please do not have me accept his suit". |
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| 7 | 743 |
"Please do not have me accept his suit!" begged Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 745 |
"Please!" said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 748 |
"Please," begged Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 749 |
"Do not anger me, maiden," said Bloketu, "or I may send you to him for the night, without your clothes and tied, maybe with a quirt tied around your neck, like you were a white female slave!" Iwoso was immediately silent. |
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| 7 | 752 |
Iwoso did not respond. |
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| 7 | 753 |
I did not understand Bloketu's remark about Iwoso not yet being important. |
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| 7 | 754 |
I gathered that something might possibly happen, following which Iwoso might become important. |
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| 7 | 756 |
"Are you obedient, my maiden?" asked Bloketu of Iwoso, sweetly. |
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| 7 | 757 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Iwoso, her head down. |
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| 7 | 758 |
This was the first time I had ever heard Iwoso use this word to Bloketu. |
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| 7 | 760 |
"Why should Iwoso become important?" asked Cuwignaka, kneeling near the hide on which he was working. |
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| 7 | 762 |
Iwoso was, in the final analysis, in spite of being the maiden of a chieftain's daughter, only a slave. |
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| 7 | 779 |
"If Iwoso is to become important," said Cuwignaka, "then doubtless you would be even more important". |
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| 7 | 784 |
"May I speak, Mistress?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 788 |
"In doing this," said Iwoso, "it would be like counting a hundred coups, almost like being a high chief of the Kaiila". |
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| 7 | 791 |
Iwoso, I gathered, subtly, not quite sure of it, was a very clever young woman. |
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| 7 | 792 |
"It is my hope," Iwoso said, "to be of some small help in this business, the bringing about of peace between our peoples". |
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| 7 | 795 |
"Thank you," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 799 |
"Let us return now, Mistress," said Iwoso, "to the lodges of the Isanna". |
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| 7 | 800 |
Iwoso, I noted, seemed in a hurry to take her departure. |
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| 7 | 803 |
Iwoso was silent. |
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| 7 | 809 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 845 |
"Let us go, Mistress," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 846 |
"Be quiet," snapped Bloketu to Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 847 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Iwoso. |
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| 7 | 909 |
She was swiftly followed by Iwoso, her maiden. |
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| 7 | 915 |
"Who do you think is the most beautiful, Iwoso or Bloketu?" he asked. |
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| 7 | 918 |
"I was somewhat disturbed by portions of the conversation between you, and Bloketu and Iwoso," I said, "in particular, the business about the enlargement of Watonka's importance". |
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| 7 | 920 |
"I am afraid," he said, "that Bloketu and Iwoso were not entirely candid with us about that matter". |
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| 7 | 933 |
"Thus," said Cuwignaka, "Bloketu would be important, being the daughter of such a man, and even Iwoso, only a slave, would become celebrated amongst several tribes, serving as a maiden in so rich a household". |
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| 7 | 935 |
"It is easy to see why Bloketu and Iwoso might have been hesitant to speak of this aspect of the matter," I said, "seeing what profits might accrue to them". |
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| 18 | 301 |
Near the men, a bit to one side, were Bloketu and Iwoso. |
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| 18 | 303 |
Iwoso, on the other hand, like the other three, who were presumably Yellow Knives, seemed quite calm. |
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| 18 | 313 |
Iwoso, on the other hand, I supposed, would be required in the council lodge. |
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| 18 | 315 |
Iwoso, interestingly, had a coil of slender, supple rope at her belt. |
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| 18 | 329 |
Iwoso looked suddenly, sharply, at me. |
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| 18 | 338 |
"Lying slave!" cried Iwoso angrily, lunging at me and striking me. |
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| 18 | 343 |
This was translated by Iwoso speedily to the three Yellow Knives. |
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| 18 | 352 |
These things, and what follows, were being translated, quickly, by Iwoso for the Yellow Knives. |
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| 18 | 356 |
He spoke, and his words, for all of us, were translated by Iwoso. |
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| 19 | 61 |
"I do not think Watonka would have paid us attention," I said, "except that Iwoso leaped at me, striking me, crying out that I was a lying slave". |
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| 19 | 83 |
"Why should Watonka and Iwoso have been so angry?" he asked. |
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| 19 | 174 |
"He, and his entire party, including Iwoso and Bloketu, wore yellow scarves, or sashes, about their bodies," I said. |
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| 19 | 181 |
"Do you recall, Tatankasa," asked Cuwignaka, "some days ago, when we spoke with Bloketu and Iwoso outside our lodge. |
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| 19 | 184 |
"Iwoso was to become important, it seemed," he said. |
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| 25 | 110 |
I recalled the coils of supple rope which Iwoso, her maiden, had worn at her belt. |
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| 25 | 111 |
Too, I had little doubt that Iwoso, long before the attack, working in secret, in anticipation, had prepared a beaded collar for her mistress. |
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| 25 | 112 |
Iwoso, for her part in the attack, would now be an important woman among the Yellow Knives. |
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| 28 | 223 |
It was in this way that Watonka, the Yellow-Knife war chiefs, Bloketu, Iwoso and others had been identified as personages not to be fired upon by the Kinyanpi. |
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| 32 | 118 |
"She is now fetching for Iwoso," I said. |
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| 32 | 125 |
"She now returns and kneels before Iwoso, head down, handing her food". |
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| 32 | 126 |
"That must be very pleasant for Iwoso," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 32 | 132 |
"Do you think she will make Iwoso a good slave?" I asked. |
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| 32 | 140 |
It is a stroke worthy of Iwoso's high intelligence". |
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| 32 | 146 |
"The collar is doubtless Iwoso's," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 32 | 148 |
"Iwoso must have received much pleasure in secretly preparing it for her," said Cuwignaka, "and again when she first put it on her". |
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| 32 | 149 |
"Iwoso's triumph seems complete," I said. |
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| 32 | 155 |
Iwoso leaped to her feet. |
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| 32 | 159 |
"Iwoso does not want the slave to learn the pleasures of men," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 32 | 166 |
Iwoso leapt among the dancers, scolding and shouting, thrusting them away. |
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| 32 | 168 |
Iwoso then crouched down and, taking a braided, rawhide rope from her waist, presumably the same one I had seen her with earlier, even before the first attack on the camp, tied it about the neck of the helpless, terrified slave. |
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| 32 | 178 |
"I wonder if Iwoso is even more beautiful," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 43 | 1 |
What Occurred When We Visited a Yellow-Knife Camp "You must make swifter progress in learning Yellow Knife," said Iwoso to Bloketu, in Kaiila. |
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| 43 | 3 |
The two girls knelt, Bloketu behind Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 4 |
Bloketu was combing Iwoso's hair. |
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| 43 | 9 |
"I learned Kaiila swiftly," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 12 |
"Are you insolent, Maiden?" inquired Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 14 |
"Perhaps I should switch you again, tomorrow," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 16 |
I gathered that Iwoso's switchings, in their way, tended to be quite efficient. |
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| 43 | 18 |
"Beg properly," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 20 |
"Perhaps," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 23 |
"Continue combing," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 28 |
It was doubtless Iwoso's. |
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| 43 | 29 |
"As you will recall," said Iwoso, "I learned Kaiila very quickly". |
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| 43 | 31 |
"You, on the other hand," said Iwoso, "are quite slow". |
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| 43 | 34 |
"But you are not really that unusual," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 43 |
"It is pleasant owning you," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 45 |
"Even though you are worthless," added Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 47 |
"Even the daughters of Kaiila chieftains are worthy only to be the slaves and maidens of Yellow Knives," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 49 |
"Do you like your clothes?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 51 |
"They are far better than you deserve, are they not?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 53 |
"That is because I am kind," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 55 |
"Do you think that I am too kind?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 57 |
"Answer 'Yes' or 'No,'" said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 59 |
"Yes or no?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 61 |
"You dare to criticize me?" asked Iwoso, imperiously. |
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| 43 | 63 |
"You seem to suggest by your remark that I am perhaps insufficiently kind," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 65 |
"Your answer, then, is 'Yes'?" inquired Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 67 |
"Yes, what?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 69 |
"Yes, Mistress, what?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 71 |
"You dare criticize me again!" said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 73 |
"But you are perhaps right," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 76 |
"I have been much too lenient with you," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 84 |
"Are you crying?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 86 |
"It is not difficult to trick a stupid slave," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 88 |
"How offensive that I was once your maiden," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 91 |
"Do you know one of the great pleasures of owning a slave?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 93 |
"Knowing," said Iwoso, "that one may do with her whatever one pleases, fully". |
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| 43 | 95 |
"Continue combing," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 97 |
"Do you know that some men have been known to find the bodies of female slaves of interest?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 99 |
"Only low men, of course," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 101 |
"What do they see in such luscious, obedient sluts who must please or die?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 103 |
"You are a female slave," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 107 |
"Interesting," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 109 |
"I have seen men looking at you," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 111 |
"Your body is nicely curved," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 114 |
"Yes," said Iwoso, "—sexually". |
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| 43 | 117 |
"Do not be afraid," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 126 |
"Naked, and tied," mused Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 131 |
"Your father was a traitor," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 136 |
"Do you beg, rather, to remain my maiden?" asked Iwoso, amused. |
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| 43 | 138 |
"Beg properly," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 141 |
"Perhaps," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 144 |
"Continue combing," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 154 |
We then, with thongs, Cuwignaka working with Bloketu and Hci with Iwoso, tied each girl's hands together before her body. |
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| 43 | 156 |
Hci removed Iwoso's moccasins. |
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| 43 | 158 |
Cuwignaka then, with another thong, tied together Bloketu's ankles and Hci, working swiftly, served Iwoso in the same fashion. |
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| 43 | 160 |
Only the collar was left on Bloketu's neck, Iwoso's collar. |
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| 43 | 164 |
Iwoso shook her head wildly. |
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| 43 | 172 |
Hci, with evident pleasure, tied the thongs under Iwoso's chin. |
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| 43 | 177 |
Iwoso made angry noises, almost inaudible, muffled in her gagging. |
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| 43 | 179 |
Iwoso nodded vigorously, and Hci smiled. |
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| 43 | 181 |
"You look well tied in a slave sack," said Hci to Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 182 |
Iwoso's fury was but inadequately expressed because of her bonds, the sack and the gag. |
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| 43 | 183 |
"I am sorry, Lady Iwoso," I said, "but we did not have any sacks on hand which were appropriate for free women, sacks compatible with their dignity. |
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| 43 | 185 |
Iwoso regarded me with fury, and then looked away. |
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| 43 | 209 |
Iwoso uttered tiny, desperate, entreating noises. |
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| 43 | 210 |
"Please be silent, Lady Iwoso," I said to her, putting my finger gently across my lips. |
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| 43 | 220 |
Their fears were not allayed in the least when I, having fetched a stout rawhide rope, crouched down next to them and tied one end of this rope about the handles of Bloketu's sack and the other end about the handles of Iwoso's sack. |
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| 43 | 221 |
Iwoso began to utter desperate noises, moving her head, the gag packed in her mouth. |
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| 43 | 222 |
"You would like to speak, would you not, Lady Iwoso?" I asked. |
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| 43 | 244 |
Iwoso looked at me for a moment in fury, and then put her head back in helpless frustration. |
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| 43 | 246 |
Iwoso looked at me, puzzled. |
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| 43 | 249 |
Iwoso's mind, I had little doubt, that quick, clever mind, was working feverishly. |
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| 43 | 252 |
"I am sorry, Lady Iwoso," I said. |
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| 43 | 254 |
Iwoso, then, began to whimper timidly, piteously, trying to attract my attention. |
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| 43 | 268 |
"Red savages," I said, "sometimes treat women too fiercely, do they not?" Iwoso nodded her agreement. |
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| 43 | 270 |
Iwoso whimpered, gratefully. |
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| 43 | 276 |
I then unknotted the gag behind the back of Iwoso's neck. |
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| 43 | 284 |
The stressing and jerking of the straps, which Iwoso could feel through the back of her neck, was the result, merely, of my looping part of one strap about the other and then jerking against it, the second strap end, of course, falling free as soon as I released it, leaving only the first knot in pl... |
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| 43 | 285 |
The security knot, as far as Iwoso could tell, was in place. |
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| 43 | 287 |
"Is that better?" I asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 309 |
I heard Iwoso making tiny, desperate noises. |
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| 43 | 318 |
Iwoso was uttering tiny, desperate noises. |
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| 43 | 326 |
Iwoso was squirming madly in the sack. |
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| 43 | 335 |
Neither Iwoso nor Bloketu would sustain skin or body damage as a result of what was being done to them. |
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| 43 | 348 |
I wondered if Iwoso had speculated on why their heads had been left uncovered, or why we had not enclosed one girl completely and left the head of the other free, why we had treated the slave and the free woman identically. |
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| 43 | 360 |
Iwoso, of course, would presumably not be familiar with binding distinctions in the cities. |
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| 43 | 371 |
By now it seemed to me that Iwoso would have had time to expel her gag. |
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| 43 | 379 |
Iwoso was sitting up in her sack, her head between its handles. |
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| 43 | 383 |
By the tension on the rope attached to the handles of her sack Iwoso was then jerked backwards and again, almost horizontal, was being dragged behind me in the dust. |
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| 43 | 391 |
"Please be silent, Lady Iwoso!" I called to the Yellow-Knife maiden. |
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| 43 | 396 |
I permitted Iwoso, for a few moments more, to sit there behind me in the dust, tied in her sack, crying out. |
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| 43 | 401 |
"That will be sufficient, Lady Iwoso," I told her, in Kaiila, and then, with perhaps an overly dramatic gesture, but one whose effect was not lost on the Yellow Knives, I threw aside the robe I had worn. |
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| 43 | 404 |
Iwoso was again jerked to the near-horizontal, that position approved for females being dragged in a slave sack, and was, in an instant, speeding cooperatively behind me. |
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| 43 | 430 |
I then threaded one length of the rope through the handles on Bloketu's sack and tied the two ends together, drawing it up from the handles in such a way as to make a long, double loop, the two high portions of the loop well above the handles and adjacent to one another; I then, with the other lengt... |
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| 43 | 438 |
I looked down at Iwoso, laced securely, helplessly in her sack. |
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| 43 | 456 |
"There are the sounds of pursuers," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 461 |
"What are you doing?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 463 |
"Free me," said Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 468 |
Iwoso, startled, at my feet, screamed. |
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| 43 | 471 |
"No, no!" screamed Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 474 |
"Please, no!" whispered Iwoso. |
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| 43 | 493 |
To be sure, we had given up one kaiila, but that, perhaps, was not too much considering that we had obtained Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 1 |
Yellow Knives Come to Council Rock "Oh!" said Iwoso, wincing, as I pulled tight the knots on her wrists, fastening them back and on each side of the stout post. |
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| 44 | 2 |
"How dare you treat me like this?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 15 |
I suspect that there were few things which the sly, clever Iwoso feared in this world, but, high among them, I had little doubt, were the scarred face and fierce heart of Hci, of the Isbu Kaiila. |
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| 44 | 21 |
I then, looping rope about Iwoso's belly, twice, snugly, pulled her back against the post, roping her closely to it. |
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| 44 | 23 |
"You might have permitted us clothing," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 28 |
"As a free woman," said Iwoso, "I am not used to being exhibited naked". |
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| 44 | 34 |
"It is an excellent view," commented Iwoso, lightly. |
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| 44 | 41 |
Iwoso's head, like Bloketu's, was then roped back helplessly against the post. |
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| 44 | 46 |
Iwoso began to squirm madly in the ropes. |
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| 44 | 50 |
Iwoso, irrationally, frenziedly, fought the ropes. |
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| 44 | 56 |
"She is only a slave," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 60 |
"Do not even dare to speak, Slave," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 62 |
On her neck, thrust up, over the ropes holding her neck to the post, she still wore Iwoso's collar. |
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| 44 | 64 |
I regarded Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 69 |
"Warrior," called Iwoso, ingratiatingly. |
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| 44 | 71 |
"Please come back," entreated Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 74 |
Iwoso, I conjectured, did little without purpose. |
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| 44 | 115 |
"We were days in our hoods," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 134 |
Did she truly think that it was a mere accident that she and Bloketu had been brought to the posts this morning, interestingly, on the last day of Canwapegiwi? Without seeming to Iwoso then began to scan the terrain below, doubtless with some anxiety. |
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| 44 | 139 |
When I was behind Iwoso I looked at her again. |
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| 44 | 194 |
Hci, interestingly, was not very far away and, in a moment or two, he was approaching Iwoso's post. |
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| 44 | 198 |
He stood quite close to Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 202 |
Hci was stripped to the breechclout and Iwoso shrank even further back as the handle of his knife, thrust in its sheath, touched her above the belly on the right. |
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| 44 | 204 |
Timidly Iwoso turned her head to him and their lips, gently, touched. |
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| 44 | 207 |
Iwoso, then, frightened, but more boldly, began to kiss him softly about the mouth and face. |
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| 44 | 209 |
Iwoso, I saw, doubtless contrary to her original intentions, was actually kissing Hci. |
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| 44 | 211 |
Iwoso, softly, then, complied. |
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| 44 | 244 |
Iwoso regarded him. |
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| 44 | 247 |
Softly, then, Iwoso began to lick and kiss at the rugged, whitish tissue at the side of Hci's face. |
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| 44 | 249 |
He looked deeply into Iwoso's eyes. |
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| 44 | 253 |
Tears sprang into Iwoso's eyes. |
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| 44 | 255 |
Iwoso looked at him, puzzled. |
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| 44 | 264 |
Doubtless Iwoso held herself a thousand times above a slave, and ten thousand times above a white female slave. |
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| 44 | 267 |
Iwoso did so. |
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| 44 | 269 |
Iwoso did so, fully upon the lips, as a slave girl. |
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| 44 | 272 |
Iwoso complied, pressing her lips more desperately, more helplessly, more fervently, to those of Hci. |
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| 44 | 274 |
"I love you," said Iwoso, frightened, not even seeming to understand the words she spoke. |
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| 44 | 276 |
"I love you," said Iwoso, numbly. |
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| 44 | 279 |
"I love you," said Iwoso, desperately. |
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| 44 | 285 |
Iwoso looked again at Hci. |
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| 44 | 297 |
Iwoso, shuddering, turned her head away, weeping. |
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| 44 | 301 |
Iwoso kissed Cuwignaka. |
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| 44 | 306 |
Iwoso pressed her lips to mine. |
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| 44 | 308 |
"More fervently," said Hci, angrily, "with more meaning!" "No!" said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 316 |
"I love you!" "Behold the fickle slut," sneered Hci, "kissing and declaring her love upon command, like a slave!" I regarded Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 318 |
"I hate you!" said Iwoso, weeping, to Hci. |
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| 44 | 322 |
"Now we see Iwoso as she truly is," said Hci, "the sly, vicious Yellow-Knife slut". |
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| 44 | 332 |
"You are surprised!" cried Iwoso, wildly. |
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| 44 | 335 |
"You cannot escape!" cried Iwoso, elatedly. |
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| 44 | 342 |
"They will soon be at the foot of the trail!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 345 |
"Do you not know how it is that they found you?" cried Iwoso, weeping. |
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| 44 | 348 |
"Do you truly think, woman," asked Hci, "that you would have been permitted a gag the perfection of which you could in the least diminish had it not pleased your captors to have it so?" "I cried out to my people," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 352 |
"It was pleasant seeing you pretend to sexual need, pretty Iwoso," said Hci. |
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| 44 | 355 |
"You pretend well to sexual need, Iwoso," he said. |
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| 44 | 363 |
"They are at the foot of the trail!" sobbed Iwoso, looking down. |
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| 44 | 368 |
"It was I who brought them here!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 378 |
"You are finished now, Kaiila sleen!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 382 |
"Now you will all be killed!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 389 |
"I do not understand," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 391 |
"But the council!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 393 |
"But what are you doing here?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 396 |
"I do not understand!" said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 406 |
"No!" cried Iwoso, squirming in the ropes. |
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| 44 | 408 |
"Yes," said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 420 |
"I do not believe you!" cried Iwoso to Hci. |
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| 44 | 422 |
"You are a liar!" screamed Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 423 |
"Why else do you think that you and your miserable slave have been brought forth and roped so prominently to these posts at the edge of the escarpment? That you may, as it amuses us, see what you have brought about!" "No!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 427 |
Iwoso regarded Hci with horror. |
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| 44 | 432 |
"Please untie me," begged Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 442 |
On her throat was the beaded collar of Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 445 |
She then, Iwoso's animal, the lovely, roped slave, put down her head. |
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| 44 | 476 |
"No!" screamed Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 479 |
"No!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 495 |
Iwoso regarded the scene of carnage with horror. |
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| 44 | 503 |
Iwoso looked at Hci. |
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| 44 | 534 |
"Do not speak," said Hci to Iwoso, "or you will be slain". |
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| 44 | 535 |
Iwoso was absolutely silent. |
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| 44 | 538 |
He did, however, for a time, regard Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 542 |
"Superb!" Then he turned to Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 544 |
Iwoso looked at him, frightened. |
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| 44 | 546 |
Iwoso struggled, in vain. |
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| 44 | 548 |
Iwoso's lovely, curved body squirmed inside the confining ropes. |
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| 44 | 550 |
Iwoso looked at Hci in anger. |
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| 44 | 579 |
"You are finished now!" said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 586 |
"Already they are moving over and through your lower barricade!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 589 |
"In their numbers," cried Iwoso, elatedly, "they will storm your upper barricade, overwhelm the defenders and then be amongst you!" "It is unlikely that one of them will reach the upper barricade," said Hci. |
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| 44 | 590 |
"What do you mean?" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 598 |
"You must think not only in terms of numbers, Iwoso," I said, "but fire power, as well". |
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| 44 | 603 |
Iwoso looked at me, puzzled. |
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| 44 | 616 |
"See the Yellow Knives?" Hci asked Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 632 |
"You are hideous!" Iwoso called to Hci. |
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| 44 | 636 |
"I would die before I would be your slave," called Iwoso, sobbing, to Hci. |
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| 44 | 646 |
"I hate you!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 649 |
"I hate you!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 668 |
"What are you talking about?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 673 |
Hci walked over to stand near Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 696 |
Iwoso, tears running from her eyes, tried suddenly, wildly, irrationally, to free herself, while Hci marked her movements, each one, but, in a moment, she realized she was as helplessly bound as before. |
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| 44 | 699 |
Miserably then, moaning, Iwoso squirmed, knowing Hci's narrow-lidded, glinting eyes, amused, were upon her. |
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| 44 | 708 |
Iwoso then tried to stand perfectly still. |
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| 44 | 724 |
Doubtless Iwoso, who was a highly intelligent woman, feared that her insolence, her bluff called, her gamble failed, might, though she was free, earn her a quirting. |
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| 44 | 729 |
We looked upon Iwoso, and Bloketu, too, though she was but a slave. |
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| 44 | 734 |
Iwoso, doubtless, in secret, had lovingly prepared that collar for Bloketu when she was Bloketu's maiden. |
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| 44 | 740 |
Hci continued to regard Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 744 |
Iwoso stiffened suddenly in her bonds. |
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| 44 | 749 |
"Never!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 751 |
Instantly Iwoso stopped squirming. |
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| 44 | 755 |
Iwoso regarded them with fury. |
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| 44 | 758 |
"No, no!" said Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 780 |
"Imagine me as your slave," challenged Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 822 |
"Yes, my captor," said Iwoso, humbly. |
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| 44 | 825 |
Iwoso obeyed. |
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| 44 | 827 |
"Yes, my captor," whispered Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 828 |
In a moment, when Iwoso had finished, Hci stoppered the water bag. |
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| 44 | 831 |
"Thank you for my food and drink, my captor," said Iwoso to Hci. |
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| 44 | 837 |
From time to time I glanced back at Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 859 |
"My captor," whispered Iwoso. |
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| 44 | 869 |
Iwoso looked pleadingly at Hci. |
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| 44 | 870 |
"The proud Iwoso looks well clothed in humility," said Hci. |
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| 44 | 872 |
Iwoso looked away, as nude as a slave. |
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| 44 | 877 |
I freed the necks of Bloketu and Iwoso from the posts. |
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| 44 | 878 |
"You said that I was to be judged today," said Iwoso, "but you were wrong. |
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| 46 | 1 |
The Second Day of War "I heard noises last night, cries," said Iwoso. |
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| 46 | 9 |
Iwoso struggled briefly in her ropes, futilely. |
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| 46 | 28 |
"It has to do with keeping you alive, my proud, pretty Iwoso," I said. |
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| 46 | 39 |
"As you will, Lady Iwoso," I said. |
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| 46 | 44 |
"Have you ever been whipped, Lady Iwoso?" I asked. |
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| 46 | 48 |
"This time they will finish you!" called Iwoso. |
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| 46 | 49 |
"Iwoso seems to be in good spirits today," observed Cuwignaka. |
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| 46 | 51 |
"Tonight," said Iwoso, "I will be with my people, safe!" "What are they carrying?" asked Hci. |
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| 46 | 61 |
"Free me," said Iwoso. |
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| 46 | 69 |
"Surrender!" said Iwoso. |
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| 46 | 70 |
"Surrender!" "What is wrong with Iwoso this morning?" inquired Hci. |
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| 46 | 75 |
"What are you saying?" asked Iwoso. |
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| 46 | 78 |
He walked over to Iwoso. |
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| 46 | 111 |
"Iwoso may cry out," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 46 | 117 |
Iwoso shrank back against the post. |
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| 46 | 120 |
Iwoso, roped, trembled. |
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| 46 | 122 |
"Open your mouth, Iwoso," said Hci. |
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| 46 | 125 |
He placed this in Iwoso's mouth. |
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| 46 | 182 |
"Open your mouth," said Hci to Iwoso. |
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| 47 | 36 |
"I beg food and drink," said Iwoso, suddenly. |
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| 47 | 38 |
Iwoso looked at Hci. |
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| 47 | 43 |
Iwoso was then fed and watered. |
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| 47 | 47 |
"Do you think me weak, Iwoso," asked Hci, "that I have so soon permitted you food and drink?" She looked at him, puzzled. |
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| 47 | 62 |
"I will never wear a collar!" said Iwoso, her head held up by Hci's hand. |
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| 47 | 65 |
"I will never wear your collar!" said Iwoso. |
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| 47 | 79 |
"It is the end for you!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 47 | 321 |
"You are done!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 47 | 448 |
Iwoso was white with terror, roped to her post, seeing the retreat of the Yellow Knives. |
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| 47 | 457 |
Iwoso, helplessly roped to her post, moaned. |
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| 47 | 472 |
* * * * Iwoso gasped, and tried to turn her head away, her neck in the ropes. |
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| 47 | 474 |
Iwoso looked, helplessly, commanded. |
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| 47 | 485 |
Iwoso then closed her eyes, in misery, turning her head away, her head held in place by the ropes under her chin. |
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| 47 | 498 |
"Do you see those dusts?" Hci asked Iwoso, pointing to various points in the west. |
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| 47 | 506 |
Iwoso sobbed. |
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| 47 | 508 |
"No, my captor," said Iwoso. |
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| 47 | 514 |
Iwoso could scarcely move in the ropes. |
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| 48 | 1 |
Two Women "Free this slave," said Hci to Iwoso, pointing to Bloketu. |
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| 48 | 2 |
"Yes, my captor," said Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 5 |
"I free you," said Iwoso to Bloketu. |
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| 48 | 21 |
"Your former names, 'Bloketu' and 'Iwoso'," said Hci, "are now put on you as slave names". |
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| 48 | 25 |
Bloketu tried to read in the eyes of Cuwignaka, and Iwoso tried to read in the eyes of Hci, what was to be her fate. |
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| 48 | 30 |
He then struck Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 37 |
"No!" said Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 41 |
"Yes," cried Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 45 |
"Have mercy, Master!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 66 |
"As you see," said Hci, quoting Iwoso's remark to Bloketu in her lodge, overheard by us the night of their capture, "it is not difficult to trick a stupid slave". |
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| 48 | 69 |
"Have pity on me, Master," wept Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 77 |
This was bound behind the necks of Bloketu and Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 79 |
"What is going on?" cried Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 82 |
"But, why!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 48 | 85 |
"No!" cried Iwoso. |
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| 49 | 23 |
"Proceed," said Iwoso. |
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| 49 | 27 |
"No," cried Iwoso. |
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| 50 | 10 |
Iwoso's arm was in the grip of Hci. |
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| 50 | 12 |
Bloketu and Iwoso stood while Cuwignaka and Hci, crouching down, looped thongs about their ankles. |
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| 50 | 33 |
"What alternative?" cried Iwoso, wildly. |
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| 50 | 65 |
"This one, at least," said Hci, seizing Iwoso from behind by the arms, "is a free woman". |
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| 50 | 66 |
"Then," said Mahpiyasapa, angrily, "let the sentence, as passed, be carried out in her case!" "No!" cried Iwoso, helpless as a doll in Hci's merciless grip. |
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| 50 | 68 |
Then he let Iwoso fall to her knees. |
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| 50 | 104 |
"Please, Masters!" wept she who had once been the proud Iwoso. |
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| 50 | 112 |
"Please, Master," she begged, weeping, "please accept me as a slave!" Iwoso threw herself on her belly, on the rock, before Hci. |
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| 50 | 140 |
"Give that one to the women!" cried a man, indicating she who had been Iwoso. |
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| 50 | 146 |
Iwoso lay shuddering at Hci's feet, helpless. |
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| 50 | 150 |
"You are Cesli," said Hci to she who had been Iwoso. |
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