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| 27 | 1337 | And it can be miserable to be a View more quotes about slave">slave, of course, thought Ellen. |
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| 27 | 1334 | And do those slaves not enjoy administering the first whippings to their former mistresses! To be sure, the slave, and her life, belongs to the master. |
| 27 | 1335 | But seldom would she have it otherwise. |
| 27 | 1336 | The usual fear of the female slave is a simple one, that she may fail in some respect to be fully pleasing to the master, in which case she must expect to be punished. |
| 27 | 1337 | And it can be miserable to be a slave, of course, thought Ellen. |
| 27 | 1338 | There is little doubt about that. |
| 27 | 1339 | One is so helpless, one is so vulnerable. |
| 27 | 1340 | She remembered incidents in the house of Mirus, many in her training, her sometimes almost hysterical despair of ever being able to please her instructors, their impatience with her, her deferent and lengthy serving of formally clad diners, she naked and in a collar, her abuse at the hands of Mirus, her writhing under his whip, the ease with which she was drugged and sold, the heat of Targo's shelf, the fear of masters and the great tarns, the dust of the coffle, the cruel encirclements of tight, coarse ropes, the weight of chains, the sting of the switch, the stroke of the lash, so many things. |