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| 30 | 14 | She, View more quotes about nude">nude, kneeling, the blade of the pirate at her throat, had tied the knot of bondage in her own hair. |
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| 30 | 11 | Again Policrates signaled and this time Lita, who had once been a free woman of Victoria, pausing only to discard the bit of silk she wore on the marble steps, hurried to kneel beside me. |
| 30 | 12 | I noticed how the bit of yellow silk lay on the steps. |
| 30 | 13 | She had been humiliatingly and publicly stripped and knelt on the boards of the wharf at Victoria, before large numbers of her fellow citizens, inactive and frightened. |
| 30 | 14 | She, nude, kneeling, the blade of the pirate at her throat, had tied the knot of bondage in her own hair. |
| 30 | 15 | She had been ordered then to the galley, to be bound there as an exposed slave, to be taken to the stronghold of her masters. |
| 30 | 16 | The bit of yellow silk lay partly on one stair and, descending gracefully, partly on another. |
| 30 | 17 | It took the edge of the stair beautifully, for such silk is very fine. |