| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 11 | 100 | "View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps," I said, "it is his whip you would like to feel?" Among slaves, a common way for one slave to inquire of another her owner is to ask, "Who whips you?" To be sure, the slave may never have been whipped. |
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| 11 | 97 | "Has Master Pertinax inquired after me?" she asked. |
| 11 | 98 | "No," I said. |
| 11 | 99 | "Why do you ask?" She put down her head, "Nothing, Master," she said. |
| 11 | 100 | "Perhaps," I said, "it is his whip you would like to feel?" Among slaves, a common way for one slave to inquire of another her owner is to ask, "Who whips you?" To be sure, the slave may never have been whipped. |
| 11 | 101 | She is, of course, subject to the whip of the master, for she is a slave. |
| 11 | 102 | Sometimes a slave may be bound and whipped, to remind her that she is a slave. |
| 11 | 103 | After this, she is under no illusions as to her condition. |