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| 24 | 617 | I View more quotes about think">think you do want me, in spite of what you pretend. |
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| 24 | 614 | She must be herself, openly, publicly, as innocently and unapologetically as the rhythm of her breathing, the beating of her heart, as innocently and unapologetically as the scar of her brand and the metal of her collar! Why did you come to see me, she thought, dancing. |
| 24 | 615 | I am not being beaten! Has your joke, clever master, turned out badly? I cannot read your expression. |
| 24 | 616 | It is dark there, and you conceal your feelings well. |
| 24 | 617 | I think you do want me, in spite of what you pretend. |
| 24 | 618 | How long have you been there? Well, then, see your Ellen! Despise me if you will. |
| 24 | 619 | I do not care! See her dance, as the slave she is! You sought to destroy her, to reduce and ruin her, but you have succeeded only in giving her the dearest, the most precious and greatest fulfillment a woman can know! I love being what I am, being joyfully, willingly, helplessly, given over wholly to love and service. |
| 24 | 620 | You put me in chains, and in them I have found the greatest freedom and happiness a woman can know! Oh, I know my vulnerability, and I fear the bonds of a slave, but I would not have things other than as they are! Oh, I fear the whip, but I would not be other than subject to it! So see me dance, Master! See me dance, one you once reduced to bondage, now only another slave, now only another slave before free men! Ellen had then, in her dance, a sense of her power over men. |