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| 23 | 277 | By View more quotes about means">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. |
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| 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. |
| 23 | 279 | I then turned away, and went toward the prow. |
| 23 | 280 | There, standing on the tiny bow deck, I looked downriver. |