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| 16 | 142 | But View more quotes about surely">surely they were not all being punished! Could it be then that they were all merely the least of slaves, the cheapest of slaves, the lowest and the most meaningless of slaves? Doubtless such girls would all be eager to be freed of such collars, and have their throats returned to the lightness, if inflexible perfection, of a master's collar. |
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| 16 | 139 | She could feel it, trace with her finger the closure, feel the extended ends, touch the heavy, dangling ring which had been put through the apertures and closed. |
| 16 | 140 | Such a collar, with its size and weight, perhaps four or five pounds, its discomfort, she was sure, in the house would have been used only as a punishment collar. |
| 16 | 141 | Yet, here, all the girls wore it. |
| 16 | 142 | But surely they were not all being punished! Could it be then that they were all merely the least of slaves, the cheapest of slaves, the lowest and the most meaningless of slaves? Doubtless such girls would all be eager to be freed of such collars, and have their throats returned to the lightness, if inflexible perfection, of a master's collar. |
| 16 | 143 | Could that be why the girl had called out so beggingly, so piteously, "Buy me, Master!" Where am I, she wondered. |
| 16 | 144 | What bondage is this? She looked at the other girls. |
| 16 | 145 | They did not seem interested in her. |