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| 22 | 107 | View more quotes about pertinax">Pertinax did not know, as Cecily and I knew, that the stable grooms had well ignited, as it had amused them, and doubtless in accord with the instructions of Lord Nishida, slave fires in the belly of the former Miss Wentworth, at that time a stable slave at their disposal. |
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| 22 | 104 | "They are not free women," I reiterated. |
| 22 | 105 | "Such things," said Pertinax, "are for low women, not for such as Miss Wentworth". |
| 22 | 106 | I smiled to myself. |
| 22 | 107 | Pertinax did not know, as Cecily and I knew, that the stable grooms had well ignited, as it had amused them, and doubtless in accord with the instructions of Lord Nishida, slave fires in the belly of the former Miss Wentworth, at that time a stable slave at their disposal. |
| 22 | 108 | Any woman in whose belly burn slave fires is a slave, and henceforth and thereafter can be but a slave. |
| 22 | 109 | Ropes, straps, and chains were not the only bonds to which the former Miss Wentworth was now subject. |
| 22 | 110 | A free woman might, of course, look upon the former Miss Wentworth and, in virtue of the brevity of a tunic, perhaps, or a brand, or a collar, easily see her as slave, but they might sense, too, to their jealous fury, that something less visible and far more profound was involved, that she now, supplicatingly and irremediably, belonged to men. |