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| 10 | 479 | Before I had been View more quotes about sold">sold I had been so examined in great detail, even to the extent of performing what was almost a choreography before my prospective buyers, that my features, expressions, attitudes, movements, charms, if any, and such, might be the better assessed. |
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| 10 | 476 | It is said that only a fool would buy a woman clothed. |
| 10 | 477 | That is doubtless true. |
| 10 | 478 | I was no stranger to this sort of thing. |
| 10 | 479 | Before I had been sold I had been so examined in great detail, even to the extent of performing what was almost a choreography before my prospective buyers, that my features, expressions, attitudes, movements, charms, if any, and such, might be the better assessed. |
| 10 | 480 | One theory for the revealing garb in which kajirae are commonly kept is that in a primitive, warlike, barbarous world, a world in which slavery is common, and beautiful women are regarded as a familiar form of booty, such garb tends to make them the desiderated objects of capture, seizure and theft, this being thought, in its way, to constitute something of a protection for the free women, in their cumbersome, concealing robes and veils. |
| 10 | 481 | But there are, doubtless, several reasons for the distinctive forms of garb in which kajirae are placed. |
| 10 | 482 | One commonly mentioned reason is that it draws a clear distinction in a profoundly stratified society between our lowliness, marked by our rags, or brief tunics, and such, and the loftiness of free women, expressed in the complexity, richness and ornateness of their habiliments. |