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| 18 | 149 | I wore a View more quotes about mask">mask identical to that which I had worn when I had first gained admittance to the holding of Policrates, when I had, long ago, pretended to be an agent of Ragnar Voskjard, he who was the bearer of the topaz. |
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| 18 | 146 | I would leave the house and, at a paga tavern, purchase supper. |
| 18 | 147 | I would return after my repast, later, sometime in the early evening, at my leisure. |
| 18 | 148 | * * * * I sat upon a great curule chair, on a broad, three-stepped, carpeted dais in the house which I had borrowed from a friend, a citizen of Victoria, for the past few days. |
| 18 | 149 | I wore a mask identical to that which I had worn when I had first gained admittance to the holding of Policrates, when I had, long ago, pretended to be an agent of Ragnar Voskjard, he who was the bearer of the topaz. |
| 18 | 150 | I remembered well the feast at which I had been entertained. |
| 18 | 151 | The slaves in the holding, as I recalled, many of them former free women, had been quite beautiful. |
| 18 | 152 | I well remember one of them, in slave steel, a small, exquisite brunette, who had knelt before me, lifting fruit cupped in her hands for my delectation, and, in this, of course, as the pirates wished, presenting herself as well for my survey and consideration. |