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| 15 | 537 | "But if your View more quotes about thoughts">thoughts in this matter had been correct," I said, "it might have been too bad, might it not, for many of the other women of Ar's Station, women less fortunate, less rich, than you, who lacked the means wherewith to purchase their lives?" "That could not be my concern," she said, angrily. |
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| 15 | 534 | But that was stupid. |
| 15 | 535 | For they would take the gold and then do what they wanted with you, putting you to the sword or not, as they pleased". |
| 15 | 536 | She cried out in anger. |
| 15 | 537 | "But if your thoughts in this matter had been correct," I said, "it might have been too bad, might it not, for many of the other women of Ar's Station, women less fortunate, less rich, than you, who lacked the means wherewith to purchase their lives?" "That could not be my concern," she said, angrily. |
| 15 | 538 | "But I assure you, Lady Publia," I said, "the pertinent determinations in such matters, when the women are stripped and stood against a wall, are not made on the basis of gold". |
| 15 | 539 | "I suppose not," she said, bitterly. |
| 15 | 540 | "Why, too," I asked, "did you, a wealthy woman, of the Merchants, choose to wear artful rags, as though you might be a simple low-caste maid?" She was silent. |