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| 30 | 347 | But they are only View more quotes about slaves">slaves, lovely properties, shapely beasts, purchasable goods, degraded articles of commerce, immeasurably beneath a free person, beneath the notice of a free person, save as they may prove to be of some service, convenience, pleasure or profit, such things, to him. |
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| 30 | 344 | "I love you, Master," she said. |
| 30 | 345 | "Are you so presumptuous, so arrogant, that you dare to speak such words to your master?" Slaves are often helplessly, hopelessly, in love with their masters, often pathetically so. |
| 30 | 346 | After all, his collar is on their necks. |
| 30 | 347 | But they are only slaves, lovely properties, shapely beasts, purchasable goods, degraded articles of commerce, immeasurably beneath a free person, beneath the notice of a free person, save as they may prove to be of some service, convenience, pleasure or profit, such things, to him. |
| 30 | 348 | Thus the slave may kneel before the master, tears in her eyes, her heart offered up to him as can only be the heart of a slave, and this obvious to him, but she knows his love is to be reserved, if it be given, at all, to a free woman, not to a slave, an animal he might obtain in any market. |
| 30 | 349 | Thus she repines and dares not hope for his love. |
| 30 | 350 | Thus she, conscious of the chasms between them, and of her lowliness, and unworthiness, fears to speak her heart. |