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| 17 | 243 | She hurried away, View more quotes about trembling">trembling within her robes. |
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| 17 | 240 | Sometimes in my dance I made use of the chain, sometimes pretending, to the music, to fight it, a fight which I had to lose, or not to understand it, looking to the men then, as though they might explain its meaning to me; they did, with raucous cries; sometimes I used it to caress me, with the soft, lovely chain caresses of bondage, to which I, whimpering, responded; sometimes I seemed to confine myself variously, seemingly sometimes more strictly, more helplessly, more mercilessly, with it; sometimes I kissed it and caressed it, gratefully and lovingly, expressing therein the welling up within me of my joy at finding myself at last in my rightful place in nature; there is much that one can do with a chain. |
| 17 | 241 | Once a free woman came to watch, for a moment. |
| 17 | 242 | I dared not meet her eyes, but, too, I did not falter in my dance, or beauty; indeed, I tried to show her, lovingly, as one woman to another, what a woman could be, even a lowly slave, especially a lowly slave. |
| 17 | 243 | She hurried away, trembling within her robes. |
| 17 | 244 | I wondered if sometime she, too, would wear a collar, and move so before men. |
| 17 | 245 | I then, late in the afternoon, lay upon the pallet. |
| 17 | 246 | I could hear, beneath its narrow, sewn canvas surface, the crinkling of the straw within. |