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| 21 | 1149 | For a View more quotes about moment">moment it seemed Claudia was not certain that she had been addressed. |
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| 21 | 1146 | "Tunics?" mused Calliodorus. |
| 21 | 1147 | Claudia squirmed on her knees. |
| 21 | 1148 | "Girl?" said Calliodorus. |
| 21 | 1149 | For a moment it seemed Claudia was not certain that she had been addressed. |
| 21 | 1150 | Was she not a woman? Then she realized that she was no longer entitled to that epithet, so dignified, so formal and exalted an appellation. |
| 21 | 1151 | With her embondment she had become a girl, a girl, with all the humiliating reduction in status so signified, but, too, now, she was subject as well to all the suggestions of extreme vulnerability, and of nubility, readiness, beauty, freshness, and sexual desirability, which that term connoted. |
| 21 | 1152 | A slaver would not be asked, for example, how many women he would put on a block that night but how many girls, or not how many women he had on his chain, but how many girls, and so on. |