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| 6 | 354 | "Your generosity overwhelms me," View more quotes about cried">cried Boots, "and had I ten thousand gold pieces I would doubtless gladly barter them for such a vision, but, alas, alack, I lack that mere ten thousand pieces of gold!" Boots turned to the crowd. |
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| 6 | 351 | "My beauty, as that of a free woman, is priceless, is it not?" she asked. |
| 6 | 352 | "Of course," he said. |
| 6 | 353 | "Suppose then," she said, "that for your briefest of peeps you give me the ten thousand gold pieces of which you spoke, as a mere gesture of gratitude, of course, as the values involved are clearly incommensurate, and the veil, as well". |
| 6 | 354 | "Your generosity overwhelms me," cried Boots, "and had I ten thousand gold pieces I would doubtless gladly barter them for such a vision, but, alas, alack, I lack that mere ten thousand pieces of gold!" Boots turned to the crowd. |
| 6 | 355 | "So near," he said, "and yet so far". |
| 6 | 356 | There was much laughter. |
| 6 | 357 | The free woman in the audience turned to me. |