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| 24 | 22 | View more quotes about early">Early in her bondage, although she had understood that she had been enslaved, she had, perhaps oddly, not really thought of herself as being owned; perhaps she had thought of herself as being more a prisoner or captive of sorts; then, a bit later in her bondage, but initially while still in the house of Mirus, she had come to understand that she was not a prisoner or a captive, nothing so dignified, nothing so honorable or important, or deserving of respect, but something quite different, simply a property; she then understood that she was owned; and for a time it had been fearful to think of herself as being owned. |
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| 24 | 19 | She touched her throat lightly. |
| 24 | 20 | There was no collar there now. |
| 24 | 21 | But perhaps as early as tomorrow morning she would once more wear locked upon her neck the identificatory circlet of a master, her master. |
| 24 | 22 | Early in her bondage, although she had understood that she had been enslaved, she had, perhaps oddly, not really thought of herself as being owned; perhaps she had thought of herself as being more a prisoner or captive of sorts; then, a bit later in her bondage, but initially while still in the house of Mirus, she had come to understand that she was not a prisoner or a captive, nothing so dignified, nothing so honorable or important, or deserving of respect, but something quite different, simply a property; she then understood that she was owned; and for a time it had been fearful to think of herself as being owned. |
| 24 | 23 | But later she had come to understand this as a given modality of her actuality, as an aspect of her being, as a quotidian reality. |
| 24 | 24 | She then understood herself, and accepted herself, quite naturally and honestly, and without fear, as being what she was, as being something which was owned. |
| 24 | 25 | And this, of course, was particularly in the legal sense. |