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| 12 | 437 | And his mask View more quotes about suggested">suggested he must be highborn, perhaps one of the highest born in the city. |
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| 12 | 434 | And, indeed, who knew what further largesse one might obtain from such as he, particularly if one handled such matters cleverly, what further rare and precious encouragements such as he might lavish upon me, to woo my favor? My favor, I assure you, would not be easily won, if at all. |
| 12 | 435 | Let the necklace be but the first of a succession, I thought, of ever richer and more hopefully, more desperately proffered gifts, the first of many similarly tendered inducements. |
| 12 | 436 | In such a way, I might make clear to him, he might hope to add some weight, some charm, perhaps even some persuasiveness, to his entreaties. |
| 12 | 437 | And his mask suggested he must be highborn, perhaps one of the highest born in the city. |
| 12 | 438 | There would then be, I speculated, even should I deign to permit the relationship to develop, no difficulty, or impediment, with respect to caste. |
| 12 | 439 | One must be careful about such things, you know. |
| 12 | 440 | Surely he had tried to conceal his identity, that the shame of my rejection, which he surely must have realized he might risk, not be too publicly broadcast. |