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High up on the scaffold, he sat down, his legs dangling, and merely looked at me as I stood beneath him, as if he didn't knoho I was

"Come down, Master," I said

His hair was disheveled and matted here and there with paint He showed no surprise that I was there, no start at the sound of s He could hear words spoken in other roohts of those around hiic, I reeled

"Let me comb your hair out for you," I said I was insolent, I knew it

His tunic was stained and filthy He'd wiped his brush on it over and over again

One of his sandals fell with a clatter to the marble I picked it up

"Master, coain "

He wouldn't answer me

Suddenly all e came up in me, my loneliness to have been separated fro his injunctions, and now to co I would not tolerate his staring off, ignoring me as if I weren't there He er He must speak

I wanted suddenly to cry

His face becauished I couldn't watch this; I couldn't think that he felt pain as I did, as the other boys did I was in wild revolt

"You frighten everyone selfishly, Lord and Master!" I declare

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Without regarding reat flurry, and I heard his footsteps rushing through the empty rooms

I knew he had moved with a speed men couldn't master I hurried after hiainst rab the latch