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He mopped himself with his hands and said, “If you only knew what has happened
to me.”
“What is it?” I said. “Well,” he said, on the point of
fainting, “I was wandering all over the town without finding where I had left
my lodgings, when a respectable person came up to me and very kindly offered to
direct me. He took me round a number of dark turnings and brought me out here,
and then began to offer me money and solicit me. A woman got threepence out of
me for a room, and he had already seized me. The worst would have happened if I
had not been stronger than he.” . . .
Every one in the place seemed to be drunk on aphrodisiacs . . . but our united forces
defied our assailant. . . .
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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