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| 15 | 1043 | I motioned that View more quotes about lady">Lady Claudia should be silent. |
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| 15 | 1040 | Presumably she would not know, for example, who might have survived and who not. |
| 15 | 1041 | Gagged, too, of course, she could not even beg for information. |
| 15 | 1042 | This amused me. |
| 15 | 1043 | I motioned that Lady Claudia should be silent. |
| 15 | 1044 | I looked down at Lady Publia, lying so still. |
| 15 | 1045 | I supposed now she was pretending to be dead, or, at least, unconscious. |
| 15 | 1046 | There are numerous ways in which such fraud may be terminated, for example, to throw the woman into water, to hold her head under water for a bit, to see if she tries to free her head, sputtering and begging for mercy, to put her under the whip, to use the bastinado on the soles of her feet, to claw unexpectedly at the soft flesh behind her knees, even to lightly caress the soles of her feet, and so on. |