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| 8 | 754 | I had been caught by View more quotes about surprise">surprise! I gasped in misery, and quickly put my head down. |
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| 8 | 751 | Perhaps, in my eagerness and curiosity to see them, for I had not seen free women of this world before, I had allowed some imperfection in my position, say, with respect to the angle of my body, the backs of my hands beside me, resting on the stone, the touching of the stone with my forehead? But then, again, perhaps it was merely a whim on her part, or a tactical device, randomly applied, to assess the quality of our training. |
| 8 | 752 | I do not know, nor do I think it is important. |
| 8 | 753 | In any event, for whatever reason, she had suddenly turned back, and I had not yet lowered my head. |
| 8 | 754 | I had been caught by surprise! I gasped in misery, and quickly put my head down. |
| 8 | 755 | But it was too late. |
| 8 | 756 | An imperfection had been detected in my position! Too, my curiosity had been evident, and curiosity, it is said, is not becoming in such as we. |
| 8 | 757 | Yet I wonder who, on this wide world, is likely to be more zestfully and earnestly inquisitive, more delightfully curious, than we! That is natural for women as a whole and it is certainly natural for us, who are the most female of all women. |