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| 25 | 326 | View more quotes about commonly">Commonly, however, this serves as a simple, lovely act of deference, by means of which the slave acknowledges that she is her master's beast, his owned, domestic animal. |
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| 25 | 323 | It pleased me that she had kissed and licked my hand, first the palm, and then the back, reverently. |
| 25 | 324 | That is a common conciliatory act on the part of a slave, to lick and kiss, reverently, the hand by which she might be cuffed, first the palm, and then the back. |
| 25 | 325 | In this way she might express her fear that she might be, and her hope that she will not be, struck. |
| 25 | 326 | Commonly, however, this serves as a simple, lovely act of deference, by means of which the slave acknowledges that she is her master's beast, his owned, domestic animal. |
| 25 | 327 | A similar act, perhaps more clearly symbolic, is involved when the slave, kneeling, licks and kisses the master's whip, held to her lips. |
| 25 | 328 | Sometimes she must bring it to him in her teeth, on all fours, and then, on all fours, or kneeling, lick and kiss it, as it is held to her lips. |
| 25 | 329 | In this way she acknowledges that she is subject to him, that she is his slave, his property. |