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| 22 | 23 | I was View more quotes about curious">curious to observe this small encounter, but I had come mainly to protect her, if it seemed necessary. |
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| 22 | 20 | I trusted that it would not be crushed and soiled in that sweet sweaty little palm of hers. |
| 22 | 21 | The fellow, with two others, had emerged from the rear portal. |
| 22 | 22 | Lavinia did not move. |
| 22 | 23 | I was curious to observe this small encounter, but I had come mainly to protect her, if it seemed necessary. |
| 22 | 24 | I was not certain as to how her approach, and overture, might be received. |
| 22 | 25 | She was, after all, even though in the seeming livery and collar of a state slave, still only a slave. |
| 22 | 26 | Too, she might be somehow remembered from the days of her freedom, when her person had been sacrosanct and inviolate, and her will selfish and imperious, and this might earn her some abuse, perhaps to assuage lingering resentments, accrued from formerly endured effronteries, or perhaps merely, for the agent's amusement, to remind her of her present vulnerability and station, of her change in condition, that it was not now she who was to be pleased but rather that now it was she who must please. |