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| 12 | 344 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps if I were very pleasing, he would not beat me, or sell me. |
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| 12 | 341 | I was not eager to be owned by a state, of course. |
| 12 | 342 | I would have preferred to be owned by a given man, a private individual. |
| 12 | 343 | I wanted to be a treasure to a man, and to love and serve him, with all my heart. |
| 12 | 344 | Perhaps if I were very pleasing, he would not beat me, or sell me. |
| 12 | 345 | "Because of my rumored beauty," said she, "there was no dearth of ardent fellows who would compete to be my swain. |
| 12 | 346 | Many gifts I had from them. |
| 12 | 347 | And I gave nothing! One lesser known begged me to attend a rendezvous in a jeweler's shop, one which had but recently opened its doors in the city, that I might there pick for myself the finest of a dozen ruby necklaces, which he would then purchase for me. |