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| 19 | 1026 | I View more quotes about noted">noted that the palm of her hands, so soft, so vulnerable, had turned on her thighs, so that they faced up. |
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| 19 | 1023 | I walked about her, examining her. |
| 19 | 1024 | She kept her back very straight, and her head up. |
| 19 | 1025 | I was then again before her. |
| 19 | 1026 | I noted that the palm of her hands, so soft, so vulnerable, had turned on her thighs, so that they faced up. |
| 19 | 1027 | Among slave girls this is a common way of signaling need, helplessness, a desire to please. |
| 19 | 1028 | As she probably did not know that I took it to be instinctive, or semi-instinctive, perhaps a subconscious, or only partially understood, utilization of the symbolic aspects of the palm of the female's hand. |
| 19 | 1029 | One reason for thinking this is a very natural behavior is that almost all female slaves, in certain situations, will use it, even before it has been explicitly called to their attention by, say, a whip master or trainer. |