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| 25 | 329 | "You were begging the View more quotes about brand">brand! You were courting the collar!" "No, no!" "At least," said Ellen, "they have permitted you some modesty". |
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| 25 | 326 | And did you not flirt with the men? Was your veil not disarranged as though inadvertently when you drank? Did you not sit in a certain fashion, turned to the side, legs together, as a slave girl might sit, if she were permitted to sit? Did you not insolently, haughtily, arrogantly, put a naked slave to your feet, and not realize that men would be curious as to what you yourself might look like, put similarly to their feet? Did you not know that your carriage, and demeanor, your pride and pretensions, might try the patience of men? Did you not know that such might tempt them to transform you into something of more interest to them, that they might consider taking you in hand and turning you into a luscious, cringing slave, pathetically begging to please in whatever manner they might desire? And do not think that I did not see the hem of your robe lifted in such a way as to bare an ankle!" "No," wept the slave. |
| 25 | 327 | "No!" "Perhaps they wondered what that ankle would look like, encircled with bangles, or thonged with slave bells". |
| 25 | 328 | "No!" she protested. |
| 25 | 329 | "You were begging the brand! You were courting the collar!" "No, no!" "At least," said Ellen, "they have permitted you some modesty". |
| 25 | 330 | "What?" she asked. |
| 25 | 331 | "The wrists of a free woman, as I understand it," said Ellen, "as generally the rest of her body, are not to be publicly exposed, to prevent that being the function of gloves and sleeves". |
| 25 | 332 | "Yes," said the slave, bewildered. |