
Chapters 18 and 19 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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A Jia Says, No, It's Not That.
A jia laughs it off. She says, I am poor. There's no way that there's a soldier out there who loves me. And she goes on to say, Agilis and I own our shop. The last gift from our parents was that we have it. So they're living on the very edge of poverty. An old sailor who's ugly keeps trying to get her to marry him. A lot happening here that's unexplained. It's flirtatiously. But he's thinking through it now. He's saying, this is a little suspicious. When he should have been thinking about it earlier, right? Yeah.
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