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| 9 | 127 | The View more quotes about collar">collar, thus, in its way, is a visible acknowledgment of value. |
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| 9 | 124 | The collar is for special animals. |
| 9 | 125 | It was a visible statement that they were worth something. |
| 9 | 126 | They had been found of interest; they had been found worthy of being purchased and owned. |
| 9 | 127 | The collar, thus, in its way, is a visible acknowledgment of value. |
| 9 | 128 | A terrible insult, on this world, to a free woman, is to tell her she is not worth a collar. |
| 9 | 129 | To be sure, how would one know that, if one had not seen her? But she herself had only an anklet, the role of which, it seems, was more notational than anything else, little more than a way of keeping track of her in this house, whatever sort of house it might be. |
| 9 | 130 | Why did they not let her, too, kneel, or stand, inconspicuously aside, scarcely noticed, deferent, ready to be summoned, at so little as a snapping of the fingers of the free? "Girl!" snapped her master. |