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| 23 | 275 | Then she descended and he View more quotes about swung">swung the heavy wooden grating back in place and padlocked it shut. |
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| 23 | 272 | He opened the hatch, unbraceleted her, and indicated that she should descend into the hold. |
| 23 | 273 | She did so, carefully, holding to the sides of the ladderlike stairs. |
| 23 | 274 | She looked at me once more. |
| 23 | 275 | Then she descended and he swung the heavy wooden grating back in place and padlocked it shut. |
| 23 | 276 | After he had left I went and looked down through the grating, into the hold. |
| 23 | 277 | By means of the moonlight I could see a reticulated pattern of light and shadows there, which fell across two girls, one, Publia, sleeping, the other, Claudia, still standing, near the bottom of the ladderlike stairs, who looked up at me. |
| 23 | 278 | Seeing my eyes on her, those of a free man, she knelt. |