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| 6 | 457 | I had thrown View more quotes about myself">myself at him like a tart, and had been rejected! How could I have done that? Was I only a little tart, or was I a desperate, needful woman, one who had dared to be true to her needs? How I hated him! I was a Tatrix, a Tatrix! He was only a soldier, a mere guard! I had power. |
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| 6 | 454 | I stripped myself and threw myself on the great couch. |
| 6 | 455 | I lay on it for hours, sometimes pounding it in anger, clawing at it with my fingers, biting at it in misery, dampening it with hot tears, squirming on it in misery. |
| 6 | 456 | I had been rejected by Drusus Rencius. |
| 6 | 457 | I had thrown myself at him like a tart, and had been rejected! How could I have done that? Was I only a little tart, or was I a desperate, needful woman, one who had dared to be true to her needs? How I hated him! I was a Tatrix, a Tatrix! He was only a soldier, a mere guard! I had power. |
| 6 | 458 | I could have my vengeance on him! I could tell Ligurious that he had become fresh with me, that he had dared to try to kiss me. |
| 6 | 459 | Surely he might be broken in rank for that, or whipped, or even slain! I wondered why he had not kissed me. |
| 6 | 460 | Was it because I was a Tatrix? But I did not think that that thought, momentous though it might be, would have deterred a man such as Drusus Rencius. |