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Aphrodite: Book Two: Chapter Six. The Rose of Chrysis

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IT was a procession white and blue, yellow and rose and green. Thirty courtesans advanced carrying baskets of flowers, snow-white doves with red feet, veils of the most fragile azure, and precious ornaments. An old white-bearded priest, enveloped even around the head in a stiff unbleached material, walked before the young cortege and guided the file of bowed devotees toward the stone altar.

Aphrodite: Book Two: Chapter Six. The Rose of Chrysis

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