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| 24 | 902 | But View more quotes about perhaps">perhaps his funds, even in such a case, would not have sufficed for her purchase? Perhaps his funds, those still at his disposal, were required for the discharge of his business here? And he would not steal her, it seemed. |
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| 24 | 899 | The key to understanding these matters, of course, is to understand, simply, and clearly, that the female is an article of property, that she is owned. |
| 24 | 900 | In the case of the Lady Constanzia, as she was a free woman, her disposition was, I supposed, in the hands of certain officials of Treve. |
| 24 | 901 | I almost wished that the Lady Constanzia was a slave, and had a private master, that the scarlet-clad figure might have approached her master with the intent of negotiating her purchase. |
| 24 | 902 | But perhaps his funds, even in such a case, would not have sufficed for her purchase? Perhaps his funds, those still at his disposal, were required for the discharge of his business here? And he would not steal her, it seemed. |
| 24 | 903 | No, that would not be honorable. |
| 24 | 904 | She did not belong to him. |
| 24 | 905 | He could no more bring himself to steal her than he could have brought himself to steal a silver vessel, a golden plate, from a house in which he had been accepted as a guest. |