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| 3 | 37 | The View more quotes about first">first thought which flared into her mind, though she forced it away immediately, in terror, was that it was a bed on which might be spread-eagled a woman, wrists and ankles bound to their respective posts. |
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| 3 | 34 | She considered the bed in which she seemed so improbable an occupant. |
| 3 | 35 | It was large, deep and luxurious, the sort of bed on which a sovereign might have sported with concubines, or a virile king with his pet courtesans. |
| 3 | 36 | It had four sturdy, massive posts. |
| 3 | 37 | The first thought which flared into her mind, though she forced it away immediately, in terror, was that it was a bed on which might be spread-eagled a woman, wrists and ankles bound to their respective posts. |
| 3 | 38 | To be sure, they could not, for the size of the bed, have had fair limbs fastened directly against the dark wood of the posts themselves. |
| 3 | 39 | The ropes, fastened to the posts, would have to lead to, say, a yard away in each case, the wrists and ankles of their captive. |
| 3 | 40 | She hurried in horror from the surface of that great bed, from the whispering of its softness, the intimations of its posts, from its decadent suggestions of ecstatic, unbelievable pleasures imposed mercilessly, perhaps even curiously, or indifferently, on helpless, writhing victims. |