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| 16 | 397 | View more quotes about otherwise">Otherwise she could simply submit herself to him as an escaped or strayed slave. |
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| 16 | 394 | This is the case with a kaiila or a tarsk, and it is also the case with a slave. |
| 16 | 395 | In such a case, presumably the woman would expect the master who has then put claim on her to free her. |
| 16 | 396 | That would presumably be the point of the matter. |
| 16 | 397 | Otherwise she could simply submit herself to him as an escaped or strayed slave. |
| 16 | 398 | Thus, in this fashion, she could reveal her hidden truth, thereby alleviating her acute mental conflicts, and her sufferings, attendant upon its concealment, and by another, as she has no legal power in the matter herself, be restored to freedom. |
| 16 | 399 | To be sure, there are risks involved in this sort of thing. |
| 16 | 400 | For example, when she kneels before him, his slave, perhaps he will then simply order her to the kitchen or to his furs. |