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| 39 | 100 | "What is wrong?" I View more quotes about asked">asked. |
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| 39 | 97 | "Perhaps you understand now," I said, "a little better than before, what it is to be a slave". |
| 39 | 98 | "Yes, my master," she said. |
| 39 | 99 | She laughed, ruefully. |
| 39 | 100 | "What is wrong?" I asked. |
| 39 | 101 | "I was thinking of when I was a free woman," she said. |
| 39 | 102 | "How contemptuous I was of the slave girls in the cities, how I scorned them, and despised them, so helpless in their lowly, silken slaveries, and yet, now, how I envy them their slaveries!" I smiled. |
| 39 | 103 | "What lucky, soft little things they are," she said, "being sold naked off sales blocks to the whips and chains of strong masters, with little more to worry about than the heat of the kitchens, the steaming water of the laundering tubs, the dangers, from young, prowling ruffians, of shopping in the evening! How warm and safe they are locked in their kennels at night or cuddling, in furs, chained at the foot of their masters' couches! What need have they to fear sleen and tarns! They need fear only their masters!" "The lot of a slave girl in the cities is not always easy," I said. |