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| 18 | 168 | Before the reverberations of the gong had subsided I View more quotes about heard">heard, hurrying towards the room, from deep within the house, the sound of slave bells. |
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| 18 | 165 | I reached to my left and, from the rack on the gong frame, picked up the slender stick which reposed there. |
| 18 | 166 | On this stick was mounted a rounded, fur-wrapped head. |
| 18 | 167 | I struck the gong once, smartly, replaced the stick, and leaned back in the curule chair. |
| 18 | 168 | Before the reverberations of the gong had subsided I heard, hurrying towards the room, from deep within the house, the sound of slave bells. |
| 18 | 169 | A curtain was thrust aside at the end of the long room, and I saw her in the threshold, barefoot, her ankles belled, her feet almost lost in the piling of the deep carpet leading to the dais. |
| 18 | 170 | She seemed startled, stunned. |
| 18 | 171 | How beautiful she was in the bit of yellow pleasure silk. |