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| 16 | 650 | How View more quotes about rich">rich the joke! How delicious the insult! But I wondered, really, if the peasant, so simple, so huge, so remote, would even understand this sort of thing. |
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| 16 | 647 | It was, it seemed, to be as food exhibited to a starving man. |
| 16 | 648 | And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a free man, would be attended by such a slave, a mere pierced-ear girl, and one who would be clad in such a way before him, and behave in such a way before him, one whom he, to his misery, would be unable either to enjoy or punish. |
| 16 | 649 | He must endure, even, it seemed, if they had their way, the provocations, the mockery, of a slave. |
| 16 | 650 | How rich the joke! How delicious the insult! But I wondered, really, if the peasant, so simple, so huge, so remote, would even understand this sort of thing. |
| 16 | 651 | Might it not all be lost upon him? I was not even certain he understood he was in chains, in the depths. |
| 16 | 652 | Perhaps in his mind, he was in some simple hut, far off, perhaps in some small, fertile valley, tending his fields. |
| 16 | 653 | "You understand what is required?" he asked. |