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The man who was chained there was quite naked, except for that rag so hideously modest, which might be called the vineleaf of punishment, the succingulum of the Romans, and the christipannus of the Goths, of which the old Gallic jargon made cripagne. Christ wore but that shred on the cross. The terror-stricken sufferer whom Gwynplaine now saw seemed a man of about fifty or sixty years of age.
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