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| 11 | 9 | I had very seldom been in sirik, View more quotes about though">though I had worn one in my training once or twice, so that I might be instructed in the strict limitations it would impose on me, and how I might, nonetheless, move in it, if it were set to suitable widths, in a way pleasing to masters. |
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| 11 | 6 | I listened to the sounds of the men. |
| 11 | 7 | Sometimes, I had heard, before nights such as this, a girl is kept in close chains, sitting or lying, scarcely able to move. |
| 11 | 8 | Too, sometimes, for days before a night like this she wears the sirik. |
| 11 | 9 | I had very seldom been in sirik, though I had worn one in my training once or twice, so that I might be instructed in the strict limitations it would impose on me, and how I might, nonetheless, move in it, if it were set to suitable widths, in a way pleasing to masters. |
| 11 | 10 | The full sirik consists of a collar and three chains. |
| 11 | 11 | One of these chains, a long, vertical chain, attached to the collar, dangles downward. |
| 11 | 12 | To it are fastened two horizontal chains, one, from its attachment point near the lower belly, terminating in slave bracelets, wrist-rings, or manacles, and the other, from its attachment point at the end of the dangling chain, usually lying on the floor, or ground, terminating in shackles or ankle-rings. |