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d Pug with an ingratiating smile.“Why,they were snapped up at once—”
“We’re here,we’re here,Caspian,”cried Lucy and Edmund together and,“At your service,Sire,”piped Reepicheep from another corner.They had all been sold but the men who had bought them were staying to bid for other slaves and so they had not yet been taken away.The crowd parted to let the three of them out and there was great hand—clasping and greeting between them and Caspian.Two merchants of Calormen at once approached. The Calormen have dark faces and long beards.They wear flowing robes and orange-coloured turbans,and they are a wise, wealthy,courteous,cruel and ancient people.They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments,all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue—and things like that—but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.
“That is only fair,sirs,”said Caspian.“Every man who has bought a slave today must have his money back