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| 22 | 175 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes in her cell, unobserved, she had tried to move as she had seen one or another of the dancers move, but then she had desisted, frightened, sensing what it might be, to be seen so before men. |
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| 22 | 172 | She had begged one of her instructrices to inquire of Mirus, her master, for she herself was seldom admitted to his presence, if she might not be so trained, but the response to her petition, though apparently it amused him that she should make it, was in the negative. |
| 22 | 173 | He apparently wanted her, in her collar, to be little more than an ignorant woman of Earth, forced to serve in dismay and torment, in the crudest and lowest of bondages. |
| 22 | 174 | Sometimes, fascinated, she spied secretly on the lessons but, when caught, was cruelly switched. |
| 22 | 175 | Sometimes in her cell, unobserved, she had tried to move as she had seen one or another of the dancers move, but then she had desisted, frightened, sensing what it might be, to be seen so before men. |
| 22 | 176 | And so Ellen had never danced before men. |
| 22 | 177 | She feared to do so. |
| 22 | 178 | Yet if the fingers were snapped, or the hands clapped, or the gesture made, lifting the palms upward, she knew she must dance, dance as any slave, and as a slave must dance, for men. |