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| 36 | 308 | View more quotes about free">Free women were so different from me, with their ornate garmenture, their imperious bearing, their regal carriage, their pride, their insolence, their position, their status, their power. |
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| 36 | 305 | "Master?" "It would be unthinkable," said he, "to whip a free woman". |
| 36 | 306 | "Certainly, Master, unthinkable," I said. |
| 36 | 307 | I almost shuddered with the absurdity of the thought. |
| 36 | 308 | Free women were so different from me, with their ornate garmenture, their imperious bearing, their regal carriage, their pride, their insolence, their position, their status, their power. |
| 36 | 309 | Yet I supposed that most free women, beneath those cumbersome concealments, those manifold layers, and diverse veils, and stiff, unpleasant battlements of brocade, were not much different from slaves, except perhaps that they had not yet been dieted and exercised—that in such a manner as to make them healthy, graceful, and shapely commodities for the delectation of men. |
| 36 | 310 | "She may behave according to her whim and wont," said he. |
| 36 | 311 | "With her deceits, and blandishments, and charms, she may with impunity do much what she wishes, even destroy men. |