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| 10 | 189 | Her haunches flowed beneath the View more quotes about silk">silk, and then she had disappeared. |
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| 10 | 186 | She had been aroused from sleep, not permitted to veil herself, and instructed to prepare and serve black wine. |
| 10 | 187 | This she had done. |
| 10 | 188 | At the interior corners of her eyes had been the signs of sleep; she had yawned like a cat when kneeling to one side; her face, and her mouth, had revealed the heavy, sweet lassitude of the beautiful woman who is weary; when she had left, though she held herself erect, as an embonded girl must, there had been a slow, felicitous swing to her gait, graceful, languid, somnolent, subtly betraying the weariness of her beauty, awakened and forced so early to serve. |
| 10 | 189 | Her haunches flowed beneath the silk, and then she had disappeared. |
| 10 | 190 | I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it. |
| 10 | 191 | When she had left the room she had used the runner at the side of the room. |
| 10 | 192 | Rooms in private dwellings, in the Tahari, if rich, usually are floored with costly rugs. |