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| 20 | 310 | But then he View more quotes about asked">asked himself, how could one desire such a female, one so haughty and contemptuous, one so obsessed with her own contrived, eccentric self-image, one so naively and pretentiously, so uncritically, imbued with her vanity, and the encumbrances of an unnatural, pretentious, forlorn civilization? But certainly she had been well turned on nature's lathe, to taunt and torment men, at least until she had become their vulnerable, helpless possession. |
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| 20 | 307 | "It seems then that the Priest-Kings have miscalculated," said Peisistratus. |
| 20 | 308 | "It would seem so," said Cabot. |
| 20 | 309 | Certainly he could see little point in her being placed in the container other than to torment him, tearing him apart, betwixt his honor and his desire. |
| 20 | 310 | But then he asked himself, how could one desire such a female, one so haughty and contemptuous, one so obsessed with her own contrived, eccentric self-image, one so naively and pretentiously, so uncritically, imbued with her vanity, and the encumbrances of an unnatural, pretentious, forlorn civilization? But certainly she had been well turned on nature's lathe, to taunt and torment men, at least until she had become their vulnerable, helpless possession. |
| 20 | 311 | "But she is clearly a slave," said Peisistratus. |
| 20 | 312 | "Of that there is no doubt," said Cabot. |
| 20 | 313 | "Do you think she knows she is a slave?" "In one sense," said Cabot. |