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| 3 | 272 | It much View more quotes about pleased">pleased me to see the Ubara on her knees, beside a man, helpless in ropes, her head down, refused permission to raise it, as though a submitted slave". |
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| 3 | 269 | "Yes," I said, "I see one". |
| 3 | 270 | She perhaps referred to the extraordinary brevity of such a garment, its capacity to cling to a slave's body, its brazen scantiness, its shameful display of the slave's body as that of the animal she is, the lack of a nether closure, that she may know herself at the pleasure of masters, and such. |
| 3 | 271 | "And he knelt her, roped, at his thigh, barefoot, with her head down. |
| 3 | 272 | It much pleased me to see the Ubara on her knees, beside a man, helpless in ropes, her head down, refused permission to raise it, as though a submitted slave". |
| 3 | 273 | "Why would he so shame the Ubara," I asked, "remove her robes of state, her veiling, and such?" I asked. |
| 3 | 274 | "I think for two reasons," she said. |
| 3 | 275 | ""First, he wanted it to seem that he understood the uprising, even favored it, even shared its views, and was thus discountenancing the Ubara and her policies, for which he had held a secret animus for months, and, to show his allegiance to the uprising, had taken the tyranness prisoner, and was now willing, for certain considerations, his life, and that of his men, and perhaps a bag of gold, to surrender her, clad and shamed as she was, to the justice of Ar". |