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| 79 | 216 | When View more quotes about kneeling">kneeling unobtrusively to the side, or in the background, waiting to serve, the slaves in the long gowns will lift and arrange the gowns in such a way, gracefully, that they are about and over their knees, that in order that it will be their knees which are in direct contact with the tiles, and that the gown, thusly, not be pressed to the tiles by their weight. |
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| 79 | 213 | Indeed, in a refined supper, or entertainment, female slaves, if not gowned, are usually tunicked rather demurely, the tunics often reaching to the knees. |
| 79 | 214 | The common slave tunic, on the other hand, usually comes well above the knees, because men enjoy seeing the legs of slaves. |
| 79 | 215 | In some houses the slaves, in serving, as indicated, might be clad in gowns, indeed, in long, lovely, flowing gowns. |
| 79 | 216 | When kneeling unobtrusively to the side, or in the background, waiting to serve, the slaves in the long gowns will lift and arrange the gowns in such a way, gracefully, that they are about and over their knees, that in order that it will be their knees which are in direct contact with the tiles, and that the gown, thusly, not be pressed to the tiles by their weight. |
| 79 | 217 | This protects the gown. |
| 79 | 218 | The serving garments, whether tunics or gowns, are almost invariably white. |
| 79 | 219 | This is supposed to make it clear to the free women present that the slaves are modest, quiet girls, bashful and retiring, of a sort a fellow would scarcely notice. |