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| 20 | 1022 | A View more quotes about woman">woman may do this, of course, from many motives, such as fear or her desire to be purchased by an affluent master, only one of which might be her authentic, poignant desire to be found pleasing by him, for her own sake. |
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| 20 | 1019 | In these, the final portions of the Sa-eela, the slave, in effect, puts herself at the mercy of the master. |
| 20 | 1020 | She has already presented before him, almost in a delectable enumeration, many of the more external and rhythmic aspects of her beauty. |
| 20 | 1021 | She has displayed herself hitherto before him rather as an object in which, hopefully, he might take an interest. |
| 20 | 1022 | A woman may do this, of course, from many motives, such as fear or her desire to be purchased by an affluent master, only one of which might be her authentic, poignant desire to be found pleasing by him, for her own sake. |
| 20 | 1023 | In such displays there can be, though there often is not, a subtle psychological distinction, detectable in the behavior, between the merchandise, so to speak, and the girl who is displaying herself as merchandise. |
| 20 | 1024 | In the first case, where no true distinction exists, which is the authentic case, the girl, in effect, says, "I am for sale. |
| 20 | 1025 | Buy me, and love me!" In the second case, the girl, in effect, says, "Here is a fine slave. |