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| 16 | 625 | But what does it View more quotes about matter">matter, Ellen asked herself. |
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| 16 | 622 | The girls, heads up, moving beautifully, seemed not to notice, but surely they knew that the eyes of masters were upon them. |
| 16 | 623 | How could they not be? They were slaves! She wondered if, sometime, they, the natural masters, might look so upon her. |
| 16 | 624 | To be sure, free women stiffened, and turned angrily, and looked upon the slaves disapprovingly. |
| 16 | 625 | But what does it matter, Ellen asked herself. |
| 16 | 626 | And suddenly it came to her again that free women hated the slaves, and envied them. |
| 16 | 627 | Perhaps they, thought Ellen, wish they, too, were so garbed, so delightfully and sensuously, and were so free, so vital, so delicious, so desirable, so beautiful! Too, the slaves seemed to her radiantly happy. |
| 16 | 628 | It showed in their expressions, and in the carriage of their bodies. |