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| 1 | 83 | I View more quotes about turned">turned then to the mirror, and opened my eyes. |
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| 1 | 80 | I felt on my skin its silken presence, almost nothing, little more than a whisper or a mockery. |
| 1 | 81 | I drew it at the hem down more against my body, perhaps defensively, that I might feel it on me the more, that I might assure myself, I told myself, the more of its presence, that I was truly garmented, but this, too, of course, merely confirmed upon me not uncertainly the insidious disturbing subtlety of its slightness, the so undeniable, so insistent, scandalous feel of it, its shameful, mocking silken caress, and, too, as I drew it down, it clung more closely about me; it seemed that it would then, almost as though scornfully, imperiously, in amusement, given its nature, respond to my efforts at modesty only by producing a further and yet greater revelation and betrayal of my beauty. |
| 1 | 82 | I stood there, the garment on. |
| 1 | 83 | I turned then to the mirror, and opened my eyes. |
| 1 | 84 | Suddenly I gasped and was giddy. |
| 1 | 85 | For a moment it seemed blackness swam about me, and I fought for breath. |
| 1 | 86 | My knees almost buckled. |