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| 10 | 793 | I assumed they would not have been View more quotes about freed">freed. |
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| 10 | 790 | And the foremost gathering places for this sort of thing, for kajirae, at any rate, as they are not allowed in the baths unless they are bath girls, are the laundering troughs, those to which they are permitted access. |
| 10 | 791 | In any event, I had hoped, at least at first, that I might, at the troughs, or fountains, or in the markets, or on the street, encounter some of those I knew from the sorority, but I had not done so. |
| 10 | 792 | Then later it seemed to me that it was just as well, and perhaps better, that we not encounter one another again. |
| 10 | 793 | I assumed they would not have been freed. |
| 10 | 794 | They were comely, and it is said that only a fool frees a slave girl. |
| 10 | 795 | How could I bear that they might look upon me now, in my shame and degradation, now no more than a barefoot, tunicked, collared slave? And what of them? How could I bear to look upon my former sisters, shamefully garbed, their necks clasped in the circlet of bondage? Yet I knew I would be thrilled to see them so, owned, but, too, so free, so natural, so alive, so basically and radically female. |
| 10 | 796 | But how could I bear to have them see me, as a slave? It was no dog collar now buckled, and locked, about my neck, as at the party, but, on my neck, now, a true slave collar, marking me as what I now was, a true slave. |