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| 2 | 213 | View more quotes about free">Free girls, not yet companions, but of an age appropriate for the companionship, sometimes signal their availability to possible swains by belling their left ankles with a single "virgin bell". |
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| 2 | 210 | Free women, in the Tahari, incidentally, usually, when out of their houses, also measure their stride. |
| 2 | 211 | Some fasten their own ankles together with silken thongs. |
| 2 | 212 | Some dare even the chain, though they retain its key. |
| 2 | 213 | Free girls, not yet companions, but of an age appropriate for the companionship, sometimes signal their availability to possible swains by belling their left ankles with a single "virgin bell". |
| 2 | 214 | The note of this bell, which is bright and clear, is easily distinguished from those of the degrading, sensual bells of the slave. |
| 2 | 215 | Sometimes free girls, two or more of them, as a girlish lark, obtain slave bells and, chaining their ankles, dress themselves in their haiks and go about the city. |
| 2 | 216 | Sometimes their girlish amusement does not turn out as they expect. |