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| 17 | 338 | I then, View more quotes about tears">tears in my eyes, my fists clenched, then better aware of my slavery, left. |
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| 17 | 335 | I counted the Ehn, for fear he might be behind me, watching. |
| 17 | 336 | Some passers-by laughed. |
| 17 | 337 | Doubtless I was not the first slave they had seen, so discomfited. |
| 17 | 338 | I then, tears in my eyes, my fists clenched, then better aware of my slavery, left. |
| 17 | 339 | Too, I was distraught. |
| 17 | 340 | He had been cruel, but had I been found wanting? Was I so poor a slave, so unattractive a slave? Had my lips not been formed, at his command, as a slave's lips, readied for attention? Had I not, eyes closed, waited, until I had been ignored or rejected, and my pursed lips put to a stone wall, against which I foolishly stood, my hands clasped behind my back, while strangers, some amused, passed by? How helpless, weak, and meaningless I felt! I had been neglected, ignored, and scorned, and not scorned as any slave is scorned, for she is a slave, but scorned even for the purposes of a slave! Is a woman fastened in a collar only to be fastened in a collar? Is its placement meaningless? Is that all she is to be left with, that there is a collar on her neck which she cannot remove? Was I such as to be put aside, dismissed, collared? Was I adjudged of no interest? Could I be so lacking? Was I so poor a slave? Was I not attractive, even beautiful, at least a little? My sense of my own worth, as a woman and a slave, was shaken. |
| 17 | 341 | Was I so lacking? The young men I had known on my former world would have sought my kiss. |