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| 3 | 25 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes when men are to enter the garden, suddenly, or with little notice, such as guardsmen, say, in the line of duty, as in inspections or searches, a bar is rung, and we must find our body veils, and kneel, head down, and cover ourselves with them. |
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| 3 | 22 | Such things can be changed, of course, at so little as a word, or the snapping of fingers. |
| 3 | 23 | How could there be a man here, in the garden, at this time of day? I kept my head down to the grass. |
| 3 | 24 | I had not been given permission to raise it. |
| 3 | 25 | Sometimes when men are to enter the garden, suddenly, or with little notice, such as guardsmen, say, in the line of duty, as in inspections or searches, a bar is rung, and we must find our body veils, and kneel, head down, and cover ourselves with them. |
| 3 | 26 | Such veils are opaque. |
| 3 | 27 | We are not, after all, for the eyes of just anyone. |
| 3 | 28 | But I was not now concealed in my body veil! Who could this man be? I was in light silk. |