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| 40 | 15 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, when free women are present, at a supper, or such, the slave is likely to be demurely, modestly, clothed, even in an ankle-length gown. |
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| 40 | 12 | In this way she would be close at hand, and thus easily summonable, but her presence would be unobtrusive, outside the purview of her master, who, it seemed, might not now care to look upon her. |
| 40 | 13 | Had she been banished from his sight, if not from his convenience? It is not unusual, incidentally, to put a slave in the background, so to speak, in a place from whence she may be easily brought to serve, but, too, where her presence will not intrude on the attention of free persons. |
| 40 | 14 | Free women often insist on this. |
| 40 | 15 | Indeed, when free women are present, at a supper, or such, the slave is likely to be demurely, modestly, clothed, even in an ankle-length gown. |
| 40 | 16 | To be sure, she is denied gloves, her arms are commonly bare, and the collar must be clearly visible. |
| 40 | 17 | Free women insist on that. |
| 40 | 18 | If only men are present, matters are likely to be arranged differently, and proceed differently. |