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| 18 | 275 | "How can she be View more quotes about slave">slave, if you are not master?" "I fear I lack the courage, the strength, to be a master," he said. |
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| 18 | 272 | "The sooner she kneels before you and sees you as her master, the better for the both of you". |
| 18 | 273 | "She as slave, I as master," he said. |
| 18 | 274 | "Yes," I said. |
| 18 | 275 | "How can she be slave, if you are not master?" "I fear I lack the courage, the strength, to be a master," he said. |
| 18 | 276 | "Then sell her to another," I said, "who will treat her as she deserves, and, in her heart, desires to be treated". |
| 18 | 277 | He was silent, angry. |
| 18 | 278 | What man, after all, does not, in his deepest heart, want to own a woman? What could begin to compare with such a property? Perhaps, I thought, he has dreamed of another woman, a different slave, his, helpless at his feet? Would he have the courage, the will, the determination, the kindness, the compassion, I wondered, to put her at his feet, keep her there without the least compromise, and fulfill her? "Why should Sumomo not respect Tajima?" I asked. |