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| 11 | 1454 | When then one is View more quotes about summoned">summoned to further service, by perhaps so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers, one leaps up and hurries forward, perhaps then, on one's knees, to clear, or perhaps to fetch and then serve, again kneeling, the tiny cups of strong coffees, or black wines, the shallow silver bowls of white and yellow sherbet. |
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| 11 | 1451 | One was, of course, familiar with the studied inconspicuousness of the serving slave, for I had learned it in the pens. |
| 11 | 1452 | One serves humbly, self-effacingly, eyes cast downward. |
| 11 | 1453 | When not serving one kneels deferentially, silently, well back, and to the side, of the low tables. |
| 11 | 1454 | When then one is summoned to further service, by perhaps so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers, one leaps up and hurries forward, perhaps then, on one's knees, to clear, or perhaps to fetch and then serve, again kneeling, the tiny cups of strong coffees, or black wines, the shallow silver bowls of white and yellow sherbet. |
| 11 | 1455 | And so I knelt there, in correct position, naked and collared. |
| 11 | 1456 | My thoughts wandered back to my old world, to my life there, to my classes and classmates, to the shops, the malls, to my friends, Jean, and Priscilla, and Sandra, and Sally. |
| 11 | 1457 | I could feel my hair blown about my shoulders by the wind sweeping across the terrace. |