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"`Paga!'
called the standing man. `Paga!' A blonde girl, nude, with a
string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table
and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder,
poured paga into the goblet before the seated man. The fellow
who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a
tarsk-bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where,
under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a
copper bowl. |
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