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| 3 | 426 | "Why do View more quotes about free">free women object?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 423 | "They are very pretty," I said. |
| 3 | 424 | "Some free women do not approve of slaves being permitted to wear talenders," she said, "or being permitted to have representations of them, like these, on their frocks. |
| 3 | 425 | Yet slaves do often wear them, the masters permitting it, and they are not an uncommon motif, the masters seeing to it, on their garments". |
| 3 | 426 | "Why do free women object?" I asked. |
| 3 | 427 | "They feel that a slave, who must love whomever she is commanded to love, can know nothing of love". |
| 3 | 428 | "Oh," I said. |
| 3 | 429 | "But I have been both free and slave," she said, "and, forgive me, Mistress, but I think that it is only a slave, in her vulnerability and helplessness, who can know what love truly is". |