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| 8 | 57 | As it was I was View more quotes about somewhat">somewhat irritated. |
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| 8 | 54 | The piercing of the ears, however, is regarded as being the epitome of a slave girl's degradation. |
| 8 | 55 | Any woman, it is said, with pierced ears, is a slave girl. |
| 8 | 56 | "You insult me," said Hilda the Haughty, "to present me with such miserable merchandise! Is this the best that great Ar can offer?" Had I been of Ar I might have been angry. |
| 8 | 57 | As it was I was somewhat irritated. |
| 8 | 58 | The perfumes I was displaying to her had been taken, more than six months ago, by the Forkbeard from a vessel of Cos. |
| 8 | 59 | They were truly perfumes of Ar, and of the finest varieties. |
| 8 | 60 | "Who," I asked myself, "is Hilda, the daughter of a barbarian, of a rude, uncouth northern pirate, living in a high wooden fortress, overlooking the sea, to so demean the perfumes of Ar?" One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a boorish sea rover. |