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noun
The frightened Ouled–Nails were crouching at the tops of the stairs which led to their respective rooms, the only light in the courtyard coming from the sickly candles which each girl had stuck with its own grease to the woodwork of her door–frame, the better to display her charms to those who might happen to traverse the dark inclosure.
Die verängstigten Tänzerinnen kauerten am oberen Ende der Treppen, die zu ihren Zimmern führten. Das einzige Licht im Hof rührte von den dünnen Kerzen her, die jedes Mädchen mit Wachs am Gebälk des Türrahmens befestigt hatte, um seine Reize bei denjenigen besser zur Geltung zu bringen, die zufällig an der dunklen Anlage vorüberkamen.
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