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| 43 | 281 | It would not View more quotes about hold">hold, however, for very long, particularly if tested. |
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| 43 | 278 | Then, as though fearing I had been too lenient, I retightened the straps, closely, but not as tightly as they had been earlier. |
| 43 | 279 | I then fastened the straps together behind her neck with a simple over-and-under knot. |
| 43 | 280 | This would hold for a time because of the tightness of it and the strap friction. |
| 43 | 281 | It would not hold, however, for very long, particularly if tested. |
| 43 | 282 | I then pretended to secure that knot with a second knot, to prevent slippage. |
| 43 | 283 | I did not, of course, actually do so. |
| 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 place, the simple over-and-under, or overhand knot. |