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Yet far from the latticework of the docks, where looming struts of gantry and trellis cast angular shadows upon a leering audience of hoist and chain, all things are transformed from their bulk and crudeness, their ungainly corpulence and enormity, to delicacy and exquisite refinement.
A haul of grease has become the fragrant scent of musk daubed demurely against a whitened neck and embroidered chemisette. Bales from distant plantations unspool into soft twists of ribbon against curled lapels of waistcoats in silk and satin.
