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| 19 | 1133 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, many free women, while expressing disinterest in such matters, or disgust at their very thought, tend to be fascinated by them, and inquire eagerly into them. |
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| 19 | 1130 | Slaves sometimes, when prepared for love, when ordered to the furs, perhaps from an instruction issued in the morning, or such, greet their masters rather in this fashion, kneeling, with some such formula. |
| 19 | 1131 | I think it likely she knew this, for her substitution of the word 'captive' for 'slave' and 'captor' for 'master' suggested it. |
| 19 | 1132 | Many free women know more of the behaviors of slaves, and details of the relationships between them and their masters, than many free men give them credit for knowing. |
| 19 | 1133 | Indeed, many free women, while expressing disinterest in such matters, or disgust at their very thought, tend to be fascinated by them, and inquire eagerly into them. |
| 19 | 1134 | Perhaps there is a practical motivation for such interests. |
| 19 | 1135 | Perhaps they wish to know such things in case they should one day find themselves being pulled from a branding rack, their own flesh marked. |
| 19 | 1136 | To be sure, no free woman knows really what it is to be a slave, for that is known truly only to the slave herself. |