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| 4 | 518 | View more quotes about show">Show me!" Slowly, numbly, frightened, I turned about and went to the foot of the great couch. |
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| 4 | 515 | I forced from my mind the memory of the slaves I had seen earlier, the girls in the street, in their one-piece, skimpy garments, heads down, kneeling, chained together by the neck, the girls in the market, in their chains, stark naked, kneeling, too, their heads down to the warm cement, being publicly displayed for sale. |
| 4 | 516 | "What are you?" I asked. |
| 4 | 517 | "Do you not dare speak? Then show me. |
| 4 | 518 | Show me!" Slowly, numbly, frightened, I turned about and went to the foot of the great couch. |
| 4 | 519 | I knelt there, and, putting my head down, tenderly lifted up, in two hands, a length of the chain that lay coiled there. |
| 4 | 520 | I kissed it. |
| 4 | 521 | "No!" I cried out to myself, replacing the chain. |