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| 18 | 137 | In the View more quotes about first">first weeks she was not permitted clothing, only her collar. |
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| 18 | 134 | In its way, the collar has some of the symbolic aspects of the marriage ring, except, of course, that that ring is a symbol worn by a free woman who is the putative equal of a man, whereas the collar is worn by a slave, and, aside from such things as its identificatory purposes, important in Merchant Law, is a symbol of the natural woman, the woman who is categorically owned by a man, her master. |
| 18 | 135 | To be sure, it is one thing to be naked before the master, wearing only his collar, which you both know identifies you as his, and another thing to be naked in the streets. |
| 18 | 136 | Ellen was expected to run errands below, to shop, to do the laundry at the public laundering pools, and such. |
| 18 | 137 | In the first weeks she was not permitted clothing, only her collar. |
| 18 | 138 | In descending to the street she never used the outside ladder which Portus, who disliked the confinements of the long spiral staircases within the cylinders, had used to bring her originally to the tarn cot. |
| 18 | 139 | One did not often meet individuals on those staircases, and, when one did, one needed only kneel down, head down, as befitted a slave. |
| 18 | 140 | Most inhabitants of the tower, free and slave, would leave the tower at various levels, utilizing the bridges amongst them, those stretching from tower to tower, or using them to descend to the street. |