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| 21 | 34 | Too, View more quotes about though">though there are many important qualities of a slave, clearly the first recognized, and most obvious, is her beauty. |
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| 21 | 31 | No longer could she compare herself only with free women, but must now compare herself with slaves, as well; indeed, she should no longer think to compare herself with free women, at all, as she was now a slave; she should not even dare to harbor such a presumptuous comparison; free women were now dimensions beyond her; they were to her as though in another world; publicly expressing such a comparison could bring her a lashing, and possibly disfigurement; no longer was she a free woman; those distinctions, privileges, dignities, glories and honors had been taken from her; she had now been removed from one category of consideration and plunged into another which was quite different, that of the female slave. |
| 21 | 32 | Branded, locked in a collar, she was now only one beauty amongst incredible numbers of others. |
| 21 | 33 | Her competition in beauty, so to speak, had now become suddenly, unanticipatedly abundant, perhaps overwhelming. |
| 21 | 34 | Too, though there are many important qualities of a slave, clearly the first recognized, and most obvious, is her beauty. |
| 21 | 35 | And amongst her collar sisters I did not think that the former Lady Yanina, though she had been remarkably fair for a free woman, would be unduly conspicuous. |
| 21 | 36 | Obviously the most beautiful women are slaves. |
| 21 | 37 | There are two major reasons for this. |