| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 19 | 597 | "View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps you behaved around them as though you might still think of yourselves as free women," I said. |
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| 19 | 594 | "We, too, now were only slaves, and inexperienced slaves," she said. |
| 19 | 595 | "True," I said. |
| 19 | 596 | "But they need not have been so cruel!" she said. |
| 19 | 597 | "Perhaps you behaved around them as though you might still think of yourselves as free women," I said. |
| 19 | 598 | "We did that scarcely at all," she said, "only a little at first, I think, and then we did not do it again, for they whipped us. |
| 19 | 599 | After that, for the most part, they ignored us". |
| 19 | 600 | "They did not teach you their secrets then," I said, "such things as how to please men?" There are hundreds of such things, of course, ranging from the dressing and care of the hair, the application of cosmetics, such as lipstick and eye shadow, commonly thought improper for free women, and the judicious selection of jewelry, silks and perfumes, to physical and psychological subtleties, both behaviors and techniques, which can drive a master almost out of his senses with pleasure, and all this by a female totally at his disposal, one whom he can command, as it pleases him, one who is legally and literally owned by him, and in every way. |