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| 3 | 728 | View more quotes about somehow">Somehow it seemed right, before such a man, to request this boon, to see if I might speak. |
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| 3 | 725 | I then realized, partly in relief, and, in a part of me, with disappointment, that I was not then, or at least not then, to be raped. |
| 3 | 726 | I was not then to feel his strong hands on me, forcing me, as a woman, imperiously to his will. |
| 3 | 727 | "May I speak?" I whispered. |
| 3 | 728 | Somehow it seemed right, before such a man, to request this boon, to see if I might speak. |
| 3 | 729 | "Yes," he said. |
| 3 | 730 | His face was impassive. |
| 3 | 731 | I realized, with a start, that he found nothing at all unusual in my having requested permission to speak. |