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| 10 | 192 | One of the View more quotes about things">things about your world which I found striking was the paucity of clutter and furniture in your dwellings. |
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| 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. |
| 10 | 195 | There, almost anyone may sit upon a chair, whereas here, particularly in private dwellings, such an ensconcement is often reserved for individuals of status or importance. |