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| 7 | 85 | How View more quotes about easily">easily, I thought, might such a garment be thrust up, to my waist, over my hips! How vulnerable would be slaves to the attentions of masters! How might such women feel? I considered on the whole how I was clothed, or scarcely clothed. |
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| 7 | 82 | "I see," I said. |
| 7 | 83 | "The slave, at any instant," he said, "is to be available to the master". |
| 7 | 84 | "I see," I said. |
| 7 | 85 | How easily, I thought, might such a garment be thrust up, to my waist, over my hips! How vulnerable would be slaves to the attentions of masters! How might such women feel? I considered on the whole how I was clothed, or scarcely clothed. |
| 7 | 86 | How keenly must slaves be aware, I thought, of the nature of their attire, and its meaning, of its revelatory brevity and its lack of a nether closure, of how such an apparel publicly brandished their beauty and, dismayingly, denied to their sweetest and most delicious intimacies the least of shieldings, even a wisp of silk; such intimacies, I understood,, in a slave, such receptivities and sensitivities, were to be unguarded, and defenseless; they must be, in all their inviting helplessness, available to a master's most casually sought access. |
| 7 | 87 | She, and all of her, you see, willing or no, belongs to her master. |
| 7 | 88 | "Do you wish to continue with this project?" he asked. |