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| 30 | 11 | View more quotes about again">Again Policrates signaled and this time Lita, who had once been a free woman of Victoria, pausing only to discard the bit of silk she wore on the marble steps, hurried to kneel beside me. |
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| 30 | 8 | Policrates, indolent in the chair, lifted a finger and another girl, one whom I recalled was called Tais, from the feast, dark-haired, nude, knelt beside me and began to kiss and lick at my right foot and leg. |
| 30 | 9 | "For whom are you an operative?" inquired Policrates. |
| 30 | 10 | "For no one," I said, angrily. |
| 30 | 11 | Again Policrates signaled and this time Lita, who had once been a free woman of Victoria, pausing only to discard the bit of silk she wore on the marble steps, hurried to kneel beside me. |
| 30 | 12 | I noticed how the bit of yellow silk lay on the steps. |
| 30 | 13 | She had been humiliatingly and publicly stripped and knelt on the boards of the wharf at Victoria, before large numbers of her fellow citizens, inactive and frightened. |
| 30 | 14 | She, nude, kneeling, the blade of the pirate at her throat, had tied the knot of bondage in her own hair. |