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| 24 | 498 | She had discovered View more quotes about herself">herself and her beauty on this harsh world, and was as proud of her body as the most brazen of slave girls, and would not permit its being shut away from the wind and the sunlight. |
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| 24 | 495 | Virginia was clad in garments cut from the beautiful, many colored robes of concealment of the free woman. |
| 24 | 496 | But, proud of her beauty and glorious in her joy, she had boldly shortened the garments almost to the length of slave livery, and a light, diaphanous orange veil loosely held her hair and lay about her throat. |
| 24 | 497 | She wore the robes of concealment in such a way as not to conceal but enhance her great loveliness. |
| 24 | 498 | She had discovered herself and her beauty on this harsh world, and was as proud of her body as the most brazen of slave girls, and would not permit its being shut away from the wind and the sunlight. |
| 24 | 499 | The garments suggested the slave girl and yet insisted, almost demurely, on the reserve, the pride and dignity of the free woman. |
| 24 | 500 | The combination was devastating, tormentingly attractive, an achievement so tantalizing and astoundingly exciting that I would not be surprised if it were adopted throughout Ar by the city's free women, rebellious, proud of their bodies, at last determined to throw off centuries of restriction, of confinement and sequestration, at last determined to stand forth as individuals, female individuals, sensuous as slave girls but yet rich in their own persons, intelligent, bold, beautiful, free. |
| 24 | 501 | I mused to myself that slave raids on Ar might grow more frequent. |