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| 18 | 814 | Such structures are majestic, the products of, to me, View more quotes about almost">almost incomprehensible feats of engineering, and I had wanted to express my wonder and awe at them, their size and massiveness, their efficiency, their beauty, the loveliness of the sky and mountains behind them, but I was not permitted to speak. |
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| 18 | 811 | I whimpered, pleadingly, but he had turned away. |
| 18 | 812 | Again I had failed to please him, a free man. |
| 18 | 813 | * * * * I looked up, at the stone channel of the aqueduct, some hundred feet over my head. |
| 18 | 814 | Such structures are majestic, the products of, to me, almost incomprehensible feats of engineering, and I had wanted to express my wonder and awe at them, their size and massiveness, their efficiency, their beauty, the loveliness of the sky and mountains behind them, but I was not permitted to speak. |
| 18 | 815 | How helpless and alone, how miserable, one soon is, if placed in the modality of the mute slave! He in whose care I was, and the others, the free persons, ignored me. |
| 18 | 816 | Would it not have been more merciful if they had lashed me? I was no longer on the wagon chain, nor were Jane or Eve. |
| 18 | 817 | They, at least, were kind to me, and spoke to me, though I could not speak back. |