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| 9 | 116 | And she View more quotes about wondered">wondered, too, if some of the cumbersomely clad free women in the room, several even veiled, might not envy the others, their sisters, the freedom of their simple garmentures. |
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| 9 | 113 | How grateful she might be then when she felt her hands roped behind her and a leash put on her neck! The other girls in the room, those such as she, were in their tunics! Why was she not then in her tunic? Long ago she had ceased to feel such a garmenture was inexcusable and insufferably improper, that it was scandalously outrageous. |
| 9 | 114 | To be sure, she supposed in some sense it was still all these things, and by intent, but now, too, it seemed appropriate, delicious, provocative, maddeningly exciting, sexually stimulating to the wearer and doubtless, too, to the bold and appraising onlooker beneath whose gaze its lovely occupant found herself without recourse. |
| 9 | 115 | But even on Earth she had, she was now aware, viewed such garmentures rather ambivalently, perhaps even hypocritically, viewing them, or pretending to view them, on the one hand with the prescribed indignation and rage, and, on the other, wondering curiously, and excitedly, what she herself might look like, so clad. |
| 9 | 116 | And she wondered, too, if some of the cumbersomely clad free women in the room, several even veiled, might not envy the others, their sisters, the freedom of their simple garmentures. |
| 9 | 117 | And, too, what woman, in her heart, does not desire for her beauty to be displayed, does not desire to be seen, and understood, and openly relished, as the special and exquisite treasure she is? Are we not all forgivably vain? In any event, it was such as men would have for them. |
| 9 | 118 | They were dressed as men would have them dressed, such as they, if they were to be permitted clothing. |
| 9 | 119 | But why then not she? Most were kneeling, some not. |