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| 18 | 56 | She had View more quotes about knelt">knelt before a mighty man and licked and kissed his whip. |
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| 18 | 53 | She looked after Portus Canio, doubtless her master, whose name she would learn only later, and from others. |
| 18 | 54 | She trembled. |
| 18 | 55 | She had, of course, kissed the whip before, and had even been trained to do so, but this time, oddly, it seemed momentously significant to her. |
| 18 | 56 | She had knelt before a mighty man and licked and kissed his whip. |
| 18 | 57 | The symbolism of this act, she on her knees before him, naked and helpless, chained, back-braceleted, suddenly overwhelmed her. |
| 18 | 58 | Never before, it seemed, had she felt so radically, vulnerably, rawly female. |
| 18 | 59 | They are the masters, she thought. |