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| 8 | 690 | It pleases them. |
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| 8 | 687 | She View more quotes about accepted">accepted, in short, as morally indisputable, the rightfulness of herself being punished if she should fail to be pleasing. |
| 8 | 688 | Also, accepting this principle, and knowing the strength and resolve of her master, and the uncompromising reality of the discipline under which she herself was held, she was naturally disinclined to see others escape sanctions and penalties to which she herself was subject. |
| 8 | 689 | Why should others be permitted lapses, faults and errors, particularly ones in which they took arrogant pride, for which she herself would promptly and predictably suffer? Accordingly, slave girls are often zealous to see masters immediately and mercilessly correct even small lapses in the behavior of their chain sisters. |
| 8 | 690 | It pleases them. |
| 8 | 691 | Phoebe herself, it might be mentioned, had very seldom been lashed, particularly since the day of Myron's entrance into the city when Marcus had finally accepted her as a mere slave, as opposed to a Cosian woman in his collar, to be sure, enslaved, on whom he could vent his hatred for Cos and all things Cosian. |
| 8 | 692 | The general immunity to the lash which was experienced by Phoebe, of course, was a function of her excellence as a slave. |
| 8 | 693 | Excellent slaves are seldom beaten, for there is little, if any, reason to do so. |