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| 16 | 577 | What if they should, in the rush of their View more quotes about blood">blood, heat and need, turn upon her? How she might be used then, over and over, perhaps on her belly, robes torn away, on the pillows of her then-unborne palanquin! She trembled. |
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| 16 | 574 | She supposed they might be servants. |
| 16 | 575 | They had not been collared, or guarded. |
| 16 | 576 | Perhaps the woman, wisely, had not chosen to surround herself with male slaves. |
| 16 | 577 | What if they should, in the rush of their blood, heat and need, turn upon her? How she might be used then, over and over, perhaps on her belly, robes torn away, on the pillows of her then-unborne palanquin! She trembled. |
| 16 | 578 | She had heard that slaves such as she, low slaves, were sometimes cast to male slaves in the pens, much as one might cast them food. |
| 16 | 579 | This practice was supposedly useful in reducing restlessness in the pens. |
| 16 | 580 | Sometimes, in the crowd, she saw a slave girl, collared and briefly tunicked. |