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| 10 | 240 | The combination of the View more quotes about collars">collars and the white silk suggested that they might be virgin slaves. |
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| 10 | 237 | I did not think she would be as imperious should her thigh come to wear, as I suspected it might soon do, a mark like mine, identical in import if not in actual design. |
| 10 | 238 | In another cell I saw four women in rags of white silk. |
| 10 | 239 | As they wore collars I gathered that they were women such as I. |
| 10 | 240 | The combination of the collars and the white silk suggested that they might be virgin slaves. |
| 10 | 241 | A "white-silk girl" is a virgin; one who is not a virgin is sometimes referred to as a "red-silk girl". |
| 10 | 242 | This need not refer, literally, of course, to the color of their garmenture. |
| 10 | 243 | White-silk slaves, as you might suppose, are very rare. |