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| 18 | 126 | View more quotes about once">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. |
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| 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. |
| 18 | 128 | The tarnsman, with his captive, escaped. |
| 18 | 129 | He had returned to Ar later, when his city was at peace with Ar. |