| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 33 | 658 | We would live for their caress, and to View more quotes about please">please them. |
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| 33 | 655 | We had learned submission, and its fitting raptures, and now wanted it, and needed it, and hungered for it. |
| 33 | 656 | No longer could we live without it. |
| 33 | 657 | Well had we learned that we belonged, submitted, at the feet of masters. |
| 33 | 658 | We would live for their caress, and to please them. |
| 33 | 659 | We had learned much; we had learned ourselves. |
| 33 | 660 | But this, of course, I told myself, fearfully, must be concealed from Drusus Rencius! I must never let him learn that I was in my heart no more than a master's slave! How he would despise me if he knew me as no more than a slave, a girl suitable for collars and auction blocks, one appropriately to be exchanged for coins. |
| 33 | 661 | I so wanted his respect! How otherwise could he care for me? I must strive to have him think me an object of misfortune, a free woman lamentably, unconscionably embonded. |