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| 16 | 1294 | The View more quotes about slave">slave, for example, and this is commonly included in her training, seldom bends over to retrieve a fallen object. |
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| 16 | 1291 | I considered the length of garments. |
| 16 | 1292 | The long garments, usually worn by free women, such as that now worn by Boabissia, might cover certain defects of gait perhaps, but when one's legs are bared, as a slave's commonly are, one must walk with beauty and grace. |
| 16 | 1293 | Too, given the scantiness of many slave garments, it is sometimes necessary to walk in them with exquisite care. |
| 16 | 1294 | The slave, for example, and this is commonly included in her training, seldom bends over to retrieve a fallen object. |
| 16 | 1295 | Rather she flexes her knees, lowering the body beautifully, and retrieves the object from a graceful and humble crouch. |
| 16 | 1296 | Sometimes, to be sure, commonly in serving at the parties of young men, certain objects, sometimes as part of a game, objects with prearranged significances among the young men, are thrown to the floor, and she must pick them up in a less graceful fashion. |
| 16 | 1297 | Whichever object she first touches determines to whose lusty abuse she must then submit. |