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| 12 | 438 | There would then be, I View more quotes about speculated">speculated, even should I deign to permit the relationship to develop, no difficulty, or impediment, with respect to caste. |
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| 12 | 435 | Let the necklace be but the first of a succession, I thought, of ever richer and more hopefully, more desperately proffered gifts, the first of many similarly tendered inducements. |
| 12 | 436 | In such a way, I might make clear to him, he might hope to add some weight, some charm, perhaps even some persuasiveness, to his entreaties. |
| 12 | 437 | And his mask suggested he must be highborn, perhaps one of the highest born in the city. |
| 12 | 438 | There would then be, I speculated, even should I deign to permit the relationship to develop, no difficulty, or impediment, with respect to caste. |
| 12 | 439 | One must be careful about such things, you know. |
| 12 | 440 | Surely he had tried to conceal his identity, that the shame of my rejection, which he surely must have realized he might risk, not be too publicly broadcast. |
| 12 | 441 | He would come back, of course, for doubtless he was smitten by me, as a man may be by a highborn free woman. |