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| 14 | 634 | "But what if he is stupid?" she View more quotes about asked">asked. |
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| 14 | 631 | It may, of course, on occasion be used to correct any hesitation, reluctance or recalcitrance on the part of the vended article. |
| 14 | 632 | "If he continues to be inert," I said, "if he cannot be awakened or aroused, or fears to be, or does not wish to be, perhaps because of hostility toward you, or toward women, generally, he will presumably grow uneasy with you in the house and give you away, or sell you. |
| 14 | 633 | Perhaps he will even trade you for a less needful woman, or one more in accord with his needs, whatever they might be". |
| 14 | 634 | "But what if he is stupid?" she asked. |
| 14 | 635 | "Beg him then to sell you, or give you away," I said, "that you may, if only in being sold off the block, come into the collar of another, one capable of satisfying what you are, a slave". |
| 14 | 636 | "But what if he will not sell me, or give me away?" she said. |
| 14 | 637 | "What if he insists on keeping me, as he is, and as I now am? What if he will keep me only according to his own rules, and lights, and keep me from myself, denying me to myself, frustrating my deepest and most profound needs, as I am?" "Then," said I, angrily, "that is how it will be, for it is you who wear the collar. |