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| 8 | 669 | Even the highest of View more quotes about slaves">slaves, upon the merest word of a free woman, may be chained and beaten, even slain. |
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| 8 | 666 | Technically the lowest of free women, of the lowest caste, is immeasurably above even the highest of slaves, even the preferred slave of a ubar. |
| 8 | 667 | Indeed, even such a slave, perhaps in a collar set with priceless diamonds, must, upon the least indication, belly before even the least of free women, and kiss her feet humbly. |
| 8 | 668 | And this will be done with all sincerity and trepidation because, when all is said and done, she is merely a slave and the other is free. |
| 8 | 669 | Even the highest of slaves, upon the merest word of a free woman, may be chained and beaten, even slain. |
| 8 | 670 | The matter can be quite different with free men. |
| 8 | 671 | It is not unknown for free men to cultivate a high slave, hoping that she will influence her master in their behalf. |
| 8 | 672 | She may thus enjoy a genuine measure of power, and permit herself an exercise of will and voice unusual in a lower slave, playing with the ambitions and hopes of sycophants, soliciting gifts for her favors, and so on. |