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| 8 | 28 | And I had View more quotes about learned">learned, too, to my dismay, and shame, what men could do to me, and what I could become in their arms. |
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| 8 | 25 | Tears had formed in my eyes as I had thought of he whose whip I had, in what must be the dream, first kissed. |
| 8 | 26 | But how cruel he had been to me, after his first kindness, his first patience! How he had rejected me, and mocked and scorned me, how I had felt his foot, or the back of his hand, how he had thrust me to the tiles, how he would order me, angrily, to another, or even hurl me impatiently, sometimes in chains, to such a one! But how much it seemed I had learned there, in that place, in my training! And how seldom were we even clothed, save perhaps to instruct us how to bedeck ourselves in certain garments, and how provocatively, gracefully, to remove them. |
| 8 | 27 | I had learned much about myself there, it seemed. |
| 8 | 28 | And I had learned, too, to my dismay, and shame, what men could do to me, and what I could become in their arms. |
| 8 | 29 | And then I began to want this. |
| 8 | 30 | How frightful the dream! How embarrassing, how terrifying, to learn that one cannot help oneself, that one is astonishingly, helplessly vital! And how miserable and embarrassed I had been when I had learned that this information, of such intimacy and delicacy, and secrecy, had been publicly recorded on papers pertinent to me. |
| 8 | 31 | The light seemed bright. |