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Salammbo

CHAPTER VII
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Her hair was crisped so as to simulate a cloud.

Round her neck she wore little quadrangular plates of gold, representing a woman between two rampant lions; and her costume was a complete reproduction of the equipment of the goddess.

Her broad-sleeved hyacinth robe fitted close to her figure, widening out below.

The vermilion on her lips gave additional whiteness to her teeth, and the antimony on her eyelids greater length to her eyes.

Her sandals, which were cut out in bird's plumage, had very high heels, and she was extraordinarily pale, doubtless on account of the cold.
At last she came close to Hamilcar, and without looking at him, without raising her head to him: "Greeting, eye of Baalim, eternal glory! triumph! leisure! satisfaction! riches! Long has my heart been sad and the house drooping.


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