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| 79 | 595 | "In the garb of a free View more quotes about woman">woman?" "Did the girls in the pleasure cylinder not speak to you of such things," he asked, "when they were measuring you for a tunic, teaching you how to belt a camisk, and such?" "Yes, Master," she said, "slaves must be distinctively garbed, that there be no mistaking them for free women". |
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| 79 | 592 | "Can you conceive the ignominy of this? Commonly, even in low-caste households, a slave is not permitted to sit on a bench or chair, and certainly would not be permitted to recline on a supper couch. |
| 79 | 593 | Indeed, in many domiciles, a slave is not even allowed on her master's couch, but is used at its foot". |
| 79 | 594 | "Yet," said the slave, "she sits upon the throne?" "Uneasily, I trust," said Cabot, "in terror, lest her secret be discovered". |
| 79 | 595 | "In the garb of a free woman?" "Did the girls in the pleasure cylinder not speak to you of such things," he asked, "when they were measuring you for a tunic, teaching you how to belt a camisk, and such?" "Yes, Master," she said, "slaves must be distinctively garbed, that there be no mistaking them for free women". |
| 79 | 596 | "It can be a capital offense," said Cabot, "for a slave to present herself as a free woman, to pretend to be a free woman, to garb herself as a free woman, or such". |
| 79 | 597 | "Surely she must know this," said the slave, fearfully. |
| 79 | 598 | "Of course," said Cabot. |