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| 17 | 19 | They are rejected as View more quotes about free">free females not only by their former compatriots, with whom they once shared a Home Stone, but by their families, as well. |
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| 17 | 16 | A similar approach may be used on the high bridges or against unsuspecting loungers or sunbathers on the roofs of high cylinders. |
| 17 | 17 | The capture of females of the enemy is a popular sport with tarnsmen, in which tallies are kept, and many a collared, tunicked beauty in a given city has, at one time or another, felt the suddenly encircling capture rope tighten mercilessly upon her. |
| 17 | 18 | Such women, it might be mentioned, in passing, once enslaved, are irremediably slaves. |
| 17 | 19 | They are rejected as free females not only by their former compatriots, with whom they once shared a Home Stone, but by their families, as well. |
| 17 | 20 | Once collared, as the saying is, always a slave. |
| 17 | 21 | Even if such a woman is recaptured by fellows of her former city she will be brought back to her former city as only another slave, and will be held there as a slave, and a low slave. |
| 17 | 22 | To be sure, she is likely to be soon sold out of the city, as her very existence in that city is regarded as an embarrassment, and a reminder of the dishonor she has brought to her fellow citizens, her Home Stone, her caste, her clan, and family. |