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| 9 | 385 | Then she View more quotes about became">became aware of a man at the reference desk, looking down at her, one bright afternoon, a man whose look penetrated into her deepest heart and belly, and stripped her, and saw the slave there. |
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| 9 | 382 | I rolled in the sawdust. |
| 9 | 383 | Yes, there she was, there, in that simple sweater, that plain blouse and dark skirt, the dark stockings, the low-heeled black shoes. |
| 9 | 384 | Surely no man could find her of interest. |
| 9 | 385 | Then she became aware of a man at the reference desk, looking down at her, one bright afternoon, a man whose look penetrated into her deepest heart and belly, and stripped her, and saw the slave there. |
| 9 | 386 | And he had caught her in her dancer's costume, that in which no man had ever seen her before, and she had then, in swirling skirt and scarlet halter, and bells, danced in the darkened library, danced before him and his men. |
| 9 | 387 | I was vaguely aware of a cry of pleasure from the crowd. |
| 9 | 388 | I had performed the transition between two of the moves in the slave paces with the startling, sensuous agility of a dancer. |