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| 42 | 147 | View more quotes about reasons">Reasons for this are obvious, for example, that they might receive gratuities from guests and hide them; that they might take money from guards, or others, to further intrigues or to attempt to influence masters; that they be denied the power which coins might bring, in bribing guards or tradesmen, and so on. |
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| 42 | 144 | They might have been braceleted there. |
| 42 | 145 | Aynur, though she was first amongst us, was nonetheless a pleasure-garden girl. |
| 42 | 146 | Pleasure-garden girls are commonly forbidden to touch coins. |
| 42 | 147 | Reasons for this are obvious, for example, that they might receive gratuities from guests and hide them; that they might take money from guards, or others, to further intrigues or to attempt to influence masters; that they be denied the power which coins might bring, in bribing guards or tradesmen, and so on. |
| 42 | 148 | Indeed, slaves are commonly forbidden to touch money except under certain conditions, as when being sent to the market, and so on. |
| 42 | 149 | In this house, as in many others, slaves, at least those of the pleasure garden, were not permitted to touch money. |
| 42 | 150 | It can be a capital offense to do so, hands may be cut off, and such. |