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Aphrodite: Book Two: Chapter Four. Moonlight

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HOWEVER, this woman would have given him her comb and even her hair as well, for love. If he did not ask it of her, it was because of his scruples; Chrysis had very precisely demanded a crime—not any ancient jewel, thrust into the hair of a young woman. That is why he believed it his duty to consent to some shedding of blood.

Aphrodite: Book Two: Chapter Four. Moonlight

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