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| 38 | 50 | So, eventually he buys her. |
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| 38 | 47 | He recalls, in the View more quotes about alcove">alcove, how, writhing, she grasped the chain above her wrist rings, how she lifted her body and implored him not to desist in his touch, and, later, the wild jangle of the bells on her ankle as, ungovernedly in his power, she kicked wildly. |
| 38 | 48 | He patronizes the tavern again, perhaps, and again, and finds she hurries to kneel before him, and take his order. |
| 38 | 49 | When he dares, he sends her again to the alcove, and perhaps confirms what he had most feared, that she is not merely another slave to him, but that she is muchly different, and that they may have been selected for one another by nature, he as master, she as slave. |
| 38 | 50 | So, eventually he buys her. |
| 38 | 51 | She costs him more than he would care to admit to his fellows, but he will make it up, many times over, out of her lovely hide. |
| 38 | 52 | And it is not such a fearful thing, he later learns, really, to have at his feet one for whom he would die, a love slave, and one who knew him, from his first touch, as her long longed-for love master. |
| 38 | 53 | And so in the mysterious ways of nature the match is made. |