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| 17 | 297 | Other stainings, pale and yellowish, mixed in the matting, were View more quotes about doubtless">doubtless the dried residues of urine, doubtless from the close herding, or the hobbling and tethering, of numerous kaiila. |
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| 17 | 294 | The paws of the beast were filthy; what had they to do with me; the long hair was coarse and matted; the paws, with their nails, were covered with dust and dirt, and were crusted over with mud. |
| 17 | 295 | There was even grass, and seed, and tiny pebbles in the matting. |
| 17 | 296 | Too, from the staining on the hair it seemed clear the beast had trodden through dung. |
| 17 | 297 | Other stainings, pale and yellowish, mixed in the matting, were doubtless the dried residues of urine, doubtless from the close herding, or the hobbling and tethering, of numerous kaiila. |
| 17 | 298 | What could he want of me? I was a free woman! Could he expect of me some ignoble act of submission, some gross token on my part of my acceptance of a new reality in my life. |
| 17 | 299 | Better death! I refused. |
| 17 | 300 | I was a free woman! Never would I perform so hideous an act! Never would I be so debased, so humiliated! I was a free woman! He said another word and again, suddenly, I was much as I had been before, only now stripped, kneeling on the grass, my hands crossed and held before me by one man, the other readying his club to strike out my brains. |