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| 27 | 744 | These were the View more quotes about ropes">ropes of a stranger. |
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| 27 | 741 | Sometimes he had roared then with frustration, and left her on the polished boards of the training room, until, say, an Ahn or so later, calmer, perhaps having in the meantime utilized a house slave, he had returned to free her, and send her to her next class, perhaps one of cooking or sewing, or one of bathing a male. |
| 27 | 742 | But now she was to be stolen, taken from her master. |
| 27 | 743 | The ropes now were not those of Selius Arconious, her master, in which she might have been left alone, to simmer in his absence, well aware of her bound limbs, or squirmed in anticipation, delighting in her helplessness, and readying herself for his caresses, against which she would be helpless to defend herself. |
| 27 | 744 | These were the ropes of a stranger. |
| 27 | 745 | Should you not be pleased, she asked herself, to be taken from the presence of so hateful, vile, and arrogant a monster as Selius Arconious! Surely, yes, she told herself. |
| 27 | 746 | But her eyes filled with tears. |
| 27 | 747 | At a gesture from Portus Canio Selius Arconious stopped struggling, but he stood, trembling, dark with rage, between the two who had briefly held him. |