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| 22 | 523 | Did she View more quotes about think">think he owned her? Too, she did not have to perform such an obeisance in this context. |
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| 22 | 520 | The perfect obeisance, of course, the natural obeisance, that most in accord with nature, and most perfectly manifesting it, is that of the female slave to the free male. |
| 22 | 521 | What surprised me about Lavinia's obeisance was that it seemed so perfectly to exemplify that of the female slave, literally that of the slave to her master, though it was performed before a male who was not only not her master, but himself a slave. |
| 22 | 522 | That I found of interest. |
| 22 | 523 | Did she think he owned her? Too, she did not have to perform such an obeisance in this context. |
| 22 | 524 | It was not, for example, required by custom or prescribed by ordinance. |
| 22 | 525 | Too, as he did not own her nor expect to encounter her he would not have had an opportunity to specify certain details of her relationship with him, for example, his preferences with respect to her manner of presenting herself before him, the nature of the rituals of deference or submission to be expected of her, and such. |
| 22 | 526 | He was, after all, only a slave, too. |