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| 1 | 78 | Then I picked up the bit of View more quotes about silk">silk and, standing, not looking in the mirror, I drew it on. |
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| 1 | 75 | Not looking in the mirror I drew off the nightgown and held it clenched in my hand. |
| 1 | 76 | I then crouched down and put it gently on the rug, beside the bit of silk. |
| 1 | 77 | I hesitated. |
| 1 | 78 | Then I picked up the bit of silk and, standing, not looking in the mirror, I drew it on. |
| 1 | 79 | It was on me! I closed my eyes. |
| 1 | 80 | I felt on my skin its silken presence, almost nothing, little more than a whisper or a mockery. |
| 1 | 81 | I drew it at the hem down more against my body, perhaps defensively, that I might feel it on me the more, that I might assure myself, I told myself, the more of its presence, that I was truly garmented, but this, too, of course, merely confirmed upon me not uncertainly the insidious disturbing subtlety of its slightness, the so undeniable, so insistent, scandalous feel of it, its shameful, mocking silken caress, and, too, as I drew it down, it clung more closely about me; it seemed that it would then, almost as though scornfully, imperiously, in amusement, given its nature, respond to my efforts at modesty only by producing a further and yet greater revelation and betrayal of my beauty. |