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| 2 | 473 | View more quotes about frightened">Frightened now, it seemed that they, even though free, were ready to escalate the level of their artifices. |
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| 2 | 470 | These were women, I had gathered, who had made a practice of relying upon the generosity and nobility of men, or of some men, to obtain their way in life, in a sense resorting frequently to types of female fraud, regularly exploiting and, in a sense, making dupes of men. |
| 2 | 471 | Doubtless they had, at least until now, congratulated themselves on their success in such matters. |
| 2 | 472 | Now, however, they were chained to a log wall in an inn's court. |
| 2 | 473 | Frightened now, it seemed that they, even though free, were ready to escalate the level of their artifices. |
| 2 | 474 | Perhaps in more normal times, perhaps even while they were still fully clothed, and veiled, they might have found eager fellows to make good their bills, perhaps at the first sign of distress, even the moistening of an eye. |
| 2 | 475 | These, however, were not normal times. |
| 2 | 476 | I considered the four women. |