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| 11 | 228 | Or View more quotes about perhaps">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. |
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| 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. |
| 11 | 231 | But are not such, in the final analysis, owned every bit as much as we? And is not one man's high slave no more to another than the least of his bond maids, laboring shackled in his stables, her use a perquisite for rude grooms, and is it not the case that even for the very same man she who is this evening a high slave may be tomorrow the least of his properties in the scullery? Dorna returned with a small dish in which there were some tiny bits of meat. |