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| 11 | 719 | So, too, View more quotes about surely">surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs of lenience or tolerance? Had I understood them as signs of weakness or even, say, of a sort of soft kindness which I might be able, cleverly, in time, to exploit to my advantage? Let now, then, a stupid slave be disabused of such illusions! Again the lash, like lightning, flashed downward. |
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| 11 | 716 | I writhed on my belly on the flagging. |
| 11 | 717 | The stones felt cold, a considerable contrast with the flames that danced on my back. |
| 11 | 718 | The feeding in the cell, and the watering there, that I had been fed and watered, and even that I had been given some bits of precious fruit were, it seemed, quite meaningless. |
| 11 | 719 | So, too, surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs of lenience or tolerance? Had I understood them as signs of weakness or even, say, of a sort of soft kindness which I might be able, cleverly, in time, to exploit to my advantage? Let now, then, a stupid slave be disabused of such illusions! Again the lash, like lightning, flashed downward. |
| 11 | 720 | Again I wept. |
| 11 | 721 | No longer could I cry out. |
| 11 | 722 | I was helpless. |