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| 18 | 496 | The dancer reacted, as View more quotes about though">though struck, but the blade had not touched her. |
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| 18 | 493 | "I think I know this dance, or sort of dance," said Astrinax. |
| 18 | 494 | "It will have its phases, its swiftness, and its slowness, its emotions, insolence, pride, defiance, apprehension, recognition, fear, struggle, defeat, surrender, and submission". |
| 18 | 495 | I heard, it startling me, the cracking of a whip. |
| 18 | 496 | The dancer reacted, as though struck, but the blade had not touched her. |
| 18 | 497 | Occasionally it snapped again, and again, and, at the end of the dance, as is often the case in such dance, the dancer is prostrate, clearly submitted and owned. |
| 18 | 498 | In this particular dance she was kneeling and the fellow with the whip was behind her. |
| 18 | 499 | He placed the whip, coiled, against the back of her neck, and she lowered her head. |