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| 21 | 504 | It would be a very foolish View more quotes about slave">slave who would carry herself before a free woman as she is expected to carry herself before free men. |
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| 21 | 501 | Well, so, too, must be the animal who is the slave female. |
| 21 | 502 | Perhaps a cautionary word might be in order having to do with the appearance and demeanor of the slave female in the vicinity of the free woman. |
| 21 | 503 | There her appearance and deportment is usually, and wisely, transformed. |
| 21 | 504 | It would be a very foolish slave who would carry herself before a free woman as she is expected to carry herself before free men. |
| 21 | 505 | Before the scrutiny of the free woman she is likely to lapse from joyful beauty to cringing scullion. |
| 21 | 506 | She will not meet the eyes of the free woman; she is scarcely likely to leave her knees or lift her head; her body is bent and seems smaller; she seems to wilt and tremble; she tries to draw down the hem of her tunic; she grasps the edges of her tunic and tries to draw them closed, to conceal better the delights of her bosom; she is likely to whisper; her voice is uncertain, and scarcely audible. |
| 21 | 507 | These are not inauthentic dissemblings; they are a real witness to the slave's terror of the authority and power of the free woman. |