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| 24 | 582 | She no View more quotes about longer">longer dared touch the veil. |
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| 24 | 579 | She bent down, reaching her hand toward it. |
| 24 | 580 | "Beware!" called a man. |
| 24 | 581 | But then, to the music, turning away, she drew back her hand in fear. |
| 24 | 582 | She no longer dared touch the veil. |
| 24 | 583 | Whereas a woman's slave may, and often must, handle the clothing of a free woman, assisting the free woman in her cabinet, and such, she is seldom, if ever, permitted to wear the clothing of a free woman. |
| 24 | 584 | As I have mentioned, it can be a capital offense for a slave girl to don such garments. |
| 24 | 585 | When she had drawn her hand back quickly, not daring to touch the discarded veil, there had been applause from the men, who were now, it seemed, muchly drawn into the drama which the lovely slave had been enacting before them. |