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| 7 | 108 | But, in any event, I had not had View more quotes about special">special training, or, at least, no training more special than any one such as I would have, who is not intended to be, and sold as, a dancer. |
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| 7 | 105 | Similarly I was not versed in song, I was not skilled with lute or lyre, I did not even know the special dances of the gardens. |
| 7 | 106 | It is one thing to writhe naked before guards, one's body obedient to the slightest tremor of the flute, and quite another, for example, to swirl in a belt of jewels on the dancing floor of one of the golden taverns, reached only from the high bridges. |
| 7 | 107 | But then, perhaps, they are not really so different after all. |
| 7 | 108 | But, in any event, I had not had special training, or, at least, no training more special than any one such as I would have, who is not intended to be, and sold as, a dancer. |
| 7 | 109 | Why should he be asking me these things? Of course I could not read! Could he not simply look upon my lineaments, and my silk, and know that? Of course some of the flowers could read. |
| 7 | 110 | That was true. |
| 7 | 111 | But I could not! Would he not know that? Of course I could recognize that one sign. |