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| 17 | 405 | As the weights descend within the View more quotes about poles">poles the cords move and draw the pallet up under the canopy". |
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| 17 | 402 | "The cords," I said, "are attached at one end to the weights within the poles and, at the other end, to the corners of a flat pallet at the bottom of palanquin, on which the girl reclines. |
| 17 | 403 | When the curtains of the palanquin are drawn, as they were, you remember, the weights are disengaged by the bearers. |
| 17 | 404 | These weights, the four of them, collectively, are much heavier than the pallet and the girl, whom, you will remember was slim and light. |
| 17 | 405 | As the weights descend within the poles the cords move and draw the pallet up under the canopy". |
| 17 | 406 | "The girl was then being held at the top, concealed by the canopy?" "Precisely," I said. |
| 17 | 407 | "I did not think of her as going up," said Marcus. |
| 17 | 408 | "Nor would most folks," I said. |