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| 11 | 1747 | I was safe from him. |
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| 11 | 1744 | Did she not View more quotes about understand">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. |
| 11 | 1746 | I think an expression of irritation, or of annoyance, may have crossed my features, perhaps fleetingly, ending perhaps in a tiny smile, perhaps in an as-if-triumphant little smile, as I turned my head away. |
| 11 | 1747 | I was safe from him. |
| 11 | 1748 | He could not have me now! This was all subtle, you understand. |
| 11 | 1749 | Even now I am not quite certain of everything that occurred in that moment, or half moment. |
| 11 | 1750 | What I think I may have done was to convey, or seem to convey, my contempt for them, subtly, challengingly, that I had not been seized and ravished and, at the same time, slyly, vaunt my immunity from their predations. |