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| 31 | 30 | Woe to her if she were then View more quotes about picked">picked up and remanded to free women, that her body might be subjected to a discreet, private inspection. |
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| 31 | 27 | She did not even realize how her body might betray her. |
| 31 | 28 | That is something men seldom make clear to a slave. |
| 31 | 29 | Sometimes a slave, in attempting to flee a bondage of great cruelty, perhaps that of the laundries or mills, might don the garments of a free woman, hoping to elude recapture, but, to the alert, practiced eye, even beneath the cumbersome Robes of Concealment, and the veils, might be detected the body of a slave. |
| 31 | 30 | Woe to her if she were then picked up and remanded to free women, that her body might be subjected to a discreet, private inspection. |
| 31 | 31 | Lo! The brand is detected, and perhaps even a collar! The free women are outraged, but overjoyed, for they then have at their mercy what they hate most, a female slave. |
| 31 | 32 | And one who has dared to attempt to pass herself off as one of their own exalted sisterhood! The hapless, terrified slave is then stripped, held down, and lashed. |
| 31 | 33 | She is then pulled by the hair to a kneeling position, and bound, mercilessly, and then, to the rejoicing, exultant shrieks of her nobler sisters, who find revels and festival in such things, she is pulled to her feet and driven, spit upon and jeered, muchly switched, to waiting guardsmen. |