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| 28 | 24 | View more quotes about usually">Usually the punishment was not as serious as a lashing, though I had been bound and lashed twice. |
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| 28 | 21 | Nora would usually give me my assignments in the morning, as I knelt before her, specifying the times they should begin and the times within which they were to be completed. |
| 28 | 22 | This was usually done in such a way that I could not complete the task in the allotted time. |
| 28 | 23 | I would then be punished. |
| 28 | 24 | Usually the punishment was not as serious as a lashing, though I had been bound and lashed twice. |
| 28 | 25 | More often I was given a harsh scolding before the other girls, concluded with a stroke or two of the switch. |
| 28 | 26 | The point of this was more to demean and humiliate me before my sister slaves than really hurt me. |
| 28 | 27 | Indeed, Nora would have been treading a thin and dangerous line if she were to diminish my value. |