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| 64 | 154 | "Begone, View more quotes about beast">beast, monster," said Cestiphon, angrily, and the Lady Bina, sobbing, clutching the sheet about her, fighting her shackles, moved away, as swiftly as she could. |
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| 64 | 151 | The switch had done its work well, its supple, stinging slash, far better than its humble predecessor, the stick, which, less yielding, was more likely to damage a woman than punish and instruct her. |
| 64 | 152 | The stick was a makeshift device, crude and barbarous; the switch was an artifact, a boon of civilization, a tested, refined, efficient implement, one explicitly and intelligently designed for the management and improvement of slaves. |
| 64 | 153 | Cestiphon then picked up the sheet and threw it about the Lady Bina, who gratefully, with her small, closely braceleted hands, clutched it about her. |
| 64 | 154 | "Begone, beast, monster," said Cestiphon, angrily, and the Lady Bina, sobbing, clutching the sheet about her, fighting her shackles, moved away, as swiftly as she could. |
| 64 | 155 | Men withdrew from her course. |
| 64 | 156 | Female slaves slipped back, and knelt, their heads to the dirt, that she might pass, unimpeded. |
| 64 | 157 | The Lady Bina was, you see, despite what might be her misfortunes or fate, a free woman, and thus a thousand times, and more, above them. |