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| 16 | 699 | The View more quotes about point">point of a beating is not to hurt her but to improve her. |
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| 16 | 696 | A woman is almost never beaten with the full measure of a man's strength. |
| 16 | 697 | There would be little point to that, and it would be brutal. |
| 16 | 698 | She is, after all, small and beautiful, and only a female. |
| 16 | 699 | The point of a beating is not to hurt her but to improve her. |
| 16 | 700 | These considerations were nothing that Ellen understood at the time, and even if she had understood them, there was nothing in them, of course, to lessen the actual, miserable, fierce burning of the lash. |
| 16 | 701 | "Well?" asked Barzak. |
| 16 | 702 | "Master?" sobbed Ellen, a mass of flaming, stinging stripes at his feet, from the back of her neck, just below the collar, to the back of her knees. |