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| 11 | 1742 | How foolish this was, for would it not View more quotes about call">call attention to the slave at their feet? But surely this was all quite innocent, and quite unintentional, or, at least, must be seemingly so. |
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| 11 | 1739 | This arched my body somewhat, lifting my belly up, having my head a bit down. |
| 11 | 1740 | I breathed quickly, deeply, prominently, two or three times, and moved my shoulders a little, twisting them, and lifted my knees a bit. |
| 11 | 1741 | I did this though I knew the eyes of several were upon me. |
| 11 | 1742 | How foolish this was, for would it not call attention to the slave at their feet? But surely this was all quite innocent, and quite unintentional, or, at least, must be seemingly so. |
| 11 | 1743 | What woman would dare to stir thusly before such men, even in all innocence, in all inadvertence, almost like a restless, frustrated, yearning, begging slave, one attempting to call attention to herself, surely only one naive, or one reckless, or one oblivious to, or heedless of, what she might be doing. |
| 11 | 1744 | Did she not understand how such things might be viewed? Had she not considered the danger of provoking them, of even in some subtle way perhaps igniting their heats and needs? How foolish must such a woman be! Might not such movements, all innocent and unintentional as they might be, be misconstrued? Might they not even be understood as slave movements? I glanced to one of the men. |
| 11 | 1745 | I am not sure then precisely what happened. |