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| 18 | 809 | I View more quotes about threw">threw myself to my belly before him, and reached with my closely linked hands, to seize his ankle, that I might hold it, and press my lips to his feet, kissing them, again and again. |
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| 18 | 806 | Is not our speech our delight, our pleasure, our joy, our recreation, our weapon, our instrument, our gift? Is it not that whereby we can make known our feelings, our hopes, and fears; that whereby we can express ourselves, plead our causes, make known our wants, needs, and desires, that by means of which we can petition, influence, and wheedle? Is it not that by means of which we may beg for mercy, hope to be heard and understood, hope to placate the large, dangerous beasts who own us? Without it we are muchly helpless; without it how even can we best surrender and submit; without it how can we best acknowledge and serve our masters? Without it how can we well profess our love? I knelt before him, pathetically, tears on my cheeks. |
| 18 | 807 | I pointed to my mouth, with my braceleted hands, and whimpered, pleadingly. |
| 18 | 808 | He stepped back. |
| 18 | 809 | I threw myself to my belly before him, and reached with my closely linked hands, to seize his ankle, that I might hold it, and press my lips to his feet, kissing them, again and again. |
| 18 | 810 | Do men not enjoy having women so before them, as helpless, prostrated slaves? But he seized the linkage between the bracelets and pulled me to my knees, and then to my feet, and then snapped the wagon chain on my bracelets. |
| 18 | 811 | I whimpered, pleadingly, but he had turned away. |
| 18 | 812 | Again I had failed to please him, a free man. |