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| 25 | 594 | View more quotes about ellen">Ellen could then imagine her hysterically defending her respectability, that she had had such an experience but once, had not found it satisfying, muchly regretted it, had found it disgusting, and so on, the usual defenses of frigidity in a free woman. |
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| 25 | 591 | A new slave, if taken for commercial purposes, is routinely subjected to a virginity check. |
| 25 | 592 | In the slave's case, Ellen could well imagine her horror, legs spread, undergoing this examination. |
| 25 | 593 | The test in her case, of course, doubtless to her chagrin, shame and embarrassment, would have had a negative outcome. |
| 25 | 594 | Ellen could then imagine her hysterically defending her respectability, that she had had such an experience but once, had not found it satisfying, muchly regretted it, had found it disgusting, and so on, the usual defenses of frigidity in a free woman. |
| 25 | 595 | Wait until you feel slave heat, and crawl to a man, begging, thought Ellen. |
| 25 | 596 | What the auctioneer had said about the slave's sexual experience tallied, of course, with what she had told Ellen, in their earlier conversation. |
| 25 | 597 | And Ellen did not doubt but what it was true. |