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| 13 | 159 | "I was speaking to a View more quotes about barbarian">barbarian slave!" cried the free woman, in misery, dismayed, furious. |
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| 13 | 156 | And thus was I exhibited naked, and bound and collared, in the torchlight, in that dark place, before another woman, I only a barbarian slave. |
| 13 | 157 | "Insolent slave!" cried the free woman. |
| 13 | 158 | "Insolent slave!" The cage actually moved on its chain, so incensed she was. |
| 13 | 159 | "I was speaking to a barbarian slave!" cried the free woman, in misery, dismayed, furious. |
| 13 | 160 | I had not known what I should have done! I had been frightened, and bound, in the darkness. |
| 13 | 161 | But of course I should have known what I should have done! Certainly I had been fearful enough in the darkness, filled with enough trepidation concerning her presumptions. |
| 13 | 162 | Did I not know the differences between such as I and such as she? Was I not such that I would at best be privileged to serve her deferentially at table—briefly tunicked, were men present, were she a thoughtful hostess, for their pleasure—my head down, not meeting her eyes, not even daring to speak to her? Or perhaps one such as she might have me serve garbed in a long, sleeveless, demurely white serving gown, my hair bound back, that I not be too distractive to the males, save perhaps for the collar on my neck. |