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| 28 | 94 | They would be unlooped and View more quotes about lifted">lifted away, bit by bit, beginning about the head and the feet, gradually, cunningly, revealing me. |
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| 28 | 91 | We know what it can do to us. |
| 28 | 92 | I pulled the wide bands of green silk about me, more closely. |
| 28 | 93 | They would resemble, initially, a gown, but they were not truly a gown. |
| 28 | 94 | They would be unlooped and lifted away, bit by bit, beginning about the head and the feet, gradually, cunningly, revealing me. |
| 28 | 95 | Toward the end I would be spun almost free of them and then, in the end, I would be ordered, exposed save for the final silk, concealing my breasts and thighs, to lie supine at the auctioneer's feet. |
| 28 | 96 | He would then stand over me, the two bands extending from me, ribbonlike, in his grasp, taking more bids. |
| 28 | 97 | When the crowd, fierce in its impatience, demanded it, he would, shrugging, roll me free of them, in two turns, I finishing, lying on my back again, knee lifted, hands over and behind my head, the backs of my hands on the block, the palms exposed, like the rest of me, helplessly. |