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| 16 | 12 | If View more quotes about lady">Lady Publia heard these tiny noises, and associated them with Lady Claudia, presumably she thought that Lady Claudia was accompanying the executioner to the wall, doubtless as she herself would have. |
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| 16 | 9 | Lady Claudia followed, closely, frightened, miserable. |
| 16 | 10 | It seemed she cried out, softly, as the blows struck my moving, helpless, well-curved burden, almost as though she felt rather they should have been hers to endure. |
| 16 | 11 | She even sobbed. |
| 16 | 12 | If Lady Publia heard these tiny noises, and associated them with Lady Claudia, presumably she thought that Lady Claudia was accompanying the executioner to the wall, doubtless as she herself would have. |
| 16 | 13 | She had been quite cruel to us, I recalled, as our warder, and had much mocked Lady Claudia in her distress, when Lady Claudia, rather than she, had worn the ropes. |
| 16 | 14 | Now, to her horror, she found that it was she herself, unbeknownst to her compatriots, who was being carried to the wall. |
| 16 | 15 | She herself, doubtless, had the situation been reversed, would have followed the executioner eagerly, and, later, with sardonic amusement, as the spectacle unfolded, done her best to increase Lady Claudia's misery. |