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| 16 | 9 | The View more quotes about veil">veil that I had been granted, however, was not of the sort commonly adorning free women, heavy and opaque, but was of light silk. |
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| 16 | 6 | These were not altogether unlike the free woman's robes of concealment but the materials were not so inflexible and ornate. |
| 16 | 7 | Far softer they were. |
| 16 | 8 | Too, I had been veiled. |
| 16 | 9 | The veil that I had been granted, however, was not of the sort commonly adorning free women, heavy and opaque, but was of light silk. |
| 16 | 10 | Beneath it the lineaments of my features might be subtly discerned. |
| 16 | 11 | The girl who was to be introduced into his apartments was not a free woman, but a meticulously adorned, exquisitely veiled slave. |
| 16 | 12 | I could see him within, reclining on a divan. |