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| 22 | 516 | I View more quotes about watched">watched the girl approach the slave. |
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| 22 | 513 | The two men immediately drew back. |
| 22 | 514 | That interested me. |
| 22 | 515 | It seemed that no official note was to be taken of this encounter, or, at least, that its content was to be accorded the delicacy of privity, at least in theory. |
| 22 | 516 | I watched the girl approach the slave. |
| 22 | 517 | She approached with rapid, small steps, her head down, her hands to the side, slightly extended, palms back. |
| 22 | 518 | When near him she lifted her head slightly, hardly daring to meet his eyes, and then she knelt before him, as before a master, doing obeisance onto him, her head down to the stones before his golden sandals, the palms of her hands, too, on the stones. |
| 22 | 519 | This was not inappropriate, of course, even though both were slaves, as she was female and he male, and the obeisance thus, manifested in this instance in the persons of slaves, might be regarded simply as that of femaleness to maleness. |