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| 11 | 227 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps she presumed too much on the status of a high slave, which status, it seemed, must be hers. |
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| 11 | 224 | And whatever might have been her peripheral tokens of irritation or exasperation she did obey with alacrity. |
| 11 | 225 | Yes, I thought, she undoubtedly knew something of the whip. |
| 11 | 226 | Yet, too, undeniably, her behavior seemed to leave something to be desired. |
| 11 | 227 | Perhaps she presumed too much on the status of a high slave, which status, it seemed, must be hers. |
| 11 | 228 | Or perhaps she had been a high free woman, and her master, or masters, allowed her to act as she did, finding some amusement in the absurdity of it, she not understanding the joke, knowing they could in an instant bring her to her knees as a humbled, abject, servile, weeping slave. |
| 11 | 229 | But, in any event, she was accustomed, it seemed, to being treated with some indulgence, perhaps even with permissiveness. |
| 11 | 230 | How else would she have dared to exploit such latitudes of tolerance as seemed to be accorded to her? To be sure, she was a high slave. |