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| 16 | 188 | I View more quotes about must">must remember the hand and arm movements, the spins, the circles, the lifts, the thrusts! And then, at some point, perhaps when I was kneeling before him, moving my arms, and head and shoulders, I think I became one with the music and the dance. |
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| 16 | 185 | He, as many men on this world, set fires in my belly. |
| 16 | 186 | I danced before him. |
| 16 | 187 | He helped himself, from time to time, to some of the food left on the table, a grape, a tiny viand, keeping his eyes on me. |
| 16 | 188 | I must remember the hand and arm movements, the spins, the circles, the lifts, the thrusts! And then, at some point, perhaps when I was kneeling before him, moving my arms, and head and shoulders, I think I became one with the music and the dance. |
| 16 | 189 | Startled I rose to my feet and began to move about the room. |
| 16 | 190 | Were there hundreds present? Did they feast their eyes on this dancer? I went even to the musicians and moved, presenting myself as a slave, before them. |
| 16 | 191 | Were they not, too, men, and thus such as before whom it was appropriate that I present myself, hoping for their approbation? In the eyes of the musicians I read something that I had not expected to find, that they were not displeased with the sight of the slave before them. |