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| 18 | 124 | View more quotes about thereafter">Thereafter the free woman had seemed strange and restless. |
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| 18 | 121 | This caused a great scandal in Ar. |
| 18 | 122 | The slave who had so abused her was to be tortured and publicly impaled, but, to the amazement of the citizens of the city, the free woman herself spoke on the slave's behalf, and begged that she be only put lengthily under the leather. |
| 18 | 123 | It was done in this manner, to satisfy the desires of the free woman; to the astonishment of all in the court, when the chained slave girl crept on her knees, head down, to render gratitude to the free woman, the free woman had knelt beside her and kissed her, and then turned away. |
| 18 | 124 | Thereafter the free woman had seemed strange and restless. |
| 18 | 125 | She began to take to walking upon the high bridges. |
| 18 | 126 | Once, when a tarnsman snapped by, pursued by guardsmen, mounted, too, on tarns, she had torn the veils from her face and, boldly, supplicatingly, had lifted her robes, revealing her left thigh to the hip. |
| 18 | 127 | The tarnsman, circling about, took mercy upon her and it is said she cried out with joy as his braided leather rope dropped about her and tightened on her body, jerking her, its prisoner, from the high bridge. |