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| 5 | 199 | For View more quotes about example">example, we were taught how to serve at a table, deferentially, skillfully, unobtrusively and, for the most part, silently, and how to move and walk, and kneel and rise, gracefully, and even such tiny, interesting things, as how to pick up a fallen object, by crouching down, retrieving it, rather than bending over. |
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| 5 | 196 | The lessons of which the man had spoken were not all linguistic, of course. |
| 5 | 197 | I had also received lessons in the proper performance of domestic servilities, such as cooking, sewing, laundering, cleaning, and such. |
| 5 | 198 | Other lessons were almost, one might say, lessons in customs, manners and decorum. |
| 5 | 199 | For example, we were taught how to serve at a table, deferentially, skillfully, unobtrusively and, for the most part, silently, and how to move and walk, and kneel and rise, gracefully, and even such tiny, interesting things, as how to pick up a fallen object, by crouching down, retrieving it, rather than bending over. |
| 5 | 200 | We were being taught, it seemed, to be graceful and beautiful. |
| 5 | 201 | Too, of course, we were taught our place, and proper relations to men. |
| 5 | 202 | A significant portion of our training was intimate and erotic, or sexual and sensual, in nature, ranging from such things as make-up, body ornamentation, cosmetics and perfumes, to techniques, psychological and physical, generally a combination of both, of pleasing men. |