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| 10 | 191 | This is, of View more quotes about course">course, not different from the usual custom of free women, those of the lower castes. |
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| 10 | 188 | In this way, by denying her girls the arms of masters she frustrates them, which pleases her, as she hates slave girls, and she also, in a way, punishes, or thinks she punishes, men, to whom she denies her girls, for their interest in slaves, which interest she, as a free woman, resents. |
| 10 | 189 | How could one care for a slave when a free woman was present? But how could one care for a free woman, when a slave was present? But how, I asked myself, could I now be of interest to men, given the work of the razor of Petranos? "We are here," said the beast. |
| 10 | 190 | * * * * One commonly irons, as one launders, on one's knees. |
| 10 | 191 | This is, of course, not different from the usual custom of free women, those of the lower castes. |
| 10 | 192 | One of the things about your world which I found striking was the paucity of clutter and furniture in your dwellings. |
| 10 | 193 | You do much with mats, cushions, and low tables, about which men will usually sit cross-legged, and women kneel. |
| 10 | 194 | Whereas chairs, benches, and higher tables are familiar to you, as in the public eating houses, and common in the north, such things are much more common on my former world. |