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| 17 | 275 | View more quotes about swiftly">Swiftly, losing not a nonce, he undid the side latches and dropped the front panel of the trunk. |
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| 17 | 272 | "Open it!" called another. |
| 17 | 273 | The ponderous fellow threw off the wicker, basketlike lid of the trunk and gazed within, then staggering back as though in astonishment. |
| 17 | 274 | "Show us! Show us!" cried men. |
| 17 | 275 | Swiftly, losing not a nonce, he undid the side latches and dropped the front panel of the trunk. |
| 17 | 276 | There, in the trunk, framed by the sides and back, as men cried out in wonder and delight, was descried the slave, Litsia, now not only in the least of slave rags but in sirik. |
| 17 | 277 | She was excitingly curvaceous, a dream of pleasure, such a sight as might induce a strong man to howl with joy, to dance with triumph. |
| 17 | 278 | Those on the tiers rose to their feet, applauding. |