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| 22 | 96 | He had denied her acquisition. |
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| 22 | 93 | View more quotes about already">Already, you see, she had begun to suspect, and well, what it might be, to be a woman, and a slave. |
| 22 | 94 | And, as the Priest-Kings, in their cruel wisdom, had chosen her for her desirability, and particularly to a man such as Cabot, indeed, had chosen her to be irresistible to him, so, too, in her way, she had been matched to Cabot, as slave to master, that he would be irresistible to her. |
| 22 | 95 | And now, as she knelt helpless before him, the choice wholly his, he had not accepted her. |
| 22 | 96 | He had denied her acquisition. |
| 22 | 97 | She, however incomprehensibly, had been rejected! Tears of shock, of amazement, of confusion, of fear, of misery, of helplessness, sprang to her eyes, stung them, filled them, and ran down her cheeks. |
| 22 | 98 | "I fear you have distressed her," said Peisistratus. |
| 22 | 99 | Cabot shrugged. |