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| 24 | 477 | With her own View more quotes about hands">hands, but, it seemed, as though with the hands of another, she drew her veil about, drawing it to one side and then the other, this providing a glimpse, then again they concealed, of her features. |
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| 24 | 474 | The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than move about the sand with a certain cold, superior, lofty, regal pride, moving serenely, insolently, about, as a smug, self-satisfied free woman, doubtless of high caste, one secure in her status, one fully assured of her importance and station. |
| 24 | 475 | She had then, with a toss of her veiled head, returned to the area of preparation. |
| 24 | 476 | It was a different Ellen who appeared this time upon the sand, one who seemed uncertain, and frightened. |
| 24 | 477 | With her own hands, but, it seemed, as though with the hands of another, she drew her veil about, drawing it to one side and then the other, this providing a glimpse, then again they concealed, of her features. |
| 24 | 478 | It was as though two or three men, unseen, might be tearing at the concealment, she fighting them, she trying to restore it. |
| 24 | 479 | Then, as she spun in the sand, to the music, she unwound the veil and put it down about her shoulders. |
| 24 | 480 | She threw her head back as though in anguish, in misery and protest, but her features were bared to the men. |