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| 6 | 129 | I had View more quotes about learned">learned how to remove the silk gracefully. |
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| 6 | 126 | "Prepare," said he who was first among those of the house. |
| 6 | 127 | I rose lightly to my feet, and turned, and, head down, put my hand to my left shoulder. |
| 6 | 128 | I was unclothed, of course, but had I been silked the disrobing loop would have been at the left shoulder. |
| 6 | 129 | I had learned how to remove the silk gracefully. |
| 6 | 130 | Now, of course, I must merely pretend to do so. |
| 6 | 131 | I moved my hand as though loosening the disrobing loop, and then, gracefully, stepped away from the silk which had supposedly fallen about my ankles. |
| 6 | 132 | I then, facing the strangers, the newcomers, knelt before them, in a position of obeisance, my head down to the floor, the palms of my hands on the floor, too. |