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| 16 | 324 | "What does it View more quotes about mean">mean, Mother?" "Perhaps that a conflict has been resolved, that a war is over, that the darkness of a long night has at last been dispelled". |
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| 16 | 321 | Why was this? Was it because I was naked, and kneeling, and my hands were tied behind my back? Was it because I then seemed a slave to myself? And when I understood that I had been found acceptable for the chain, that I would be put on it, I felt a sudden, inexplicable profusion of relief, a surge of love and gratitude! These things suffused my whole body! And when, moments later, the chain was locked on my neck I felt another sudden, inexplicable surge of pleasure, of love, of gratitude and joy. |
| 16 | 322 | How terrible I am! I was not taught so! How could I feel such things! How terrible I am! I was naked, I could not break the chain. |
| 16 | 323 | Yet I was not then discontent! What can it all mean?" "Do not concern yourself," said the mother. |
| 16 | 324 | "What does it mean, Mother?" "Perhaps that a conflict has been resolved, that a war is over, that the darkness of a long night has at last been dispelled". |
| 16 | 325 | "I am afraid". |
| 16 | 326 | "That you may meet yourself?" "Mother!" "That is not so terrible," she said. |
| 16 | 327 | "There was something else," she whispered. |