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| 45 | 228 | How conscious I was then of my View more quotes about bondage">bondage! Indeed, it can be frightening for a slave to be thanked. |
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| 45 | 225 | I had, in effect, obeyed. |
| 45 | 226 | One does not thank a slave for obeying. |
| 45 | 227 | It is what she must do. |
| 45 | 228 | How conscious I was then of my bondage! Indeed, it can be frightening for a slave to be thanked. |
| 45 | 229 | What might it mean? Is it a warning, a criticism, that she is behaving too much like a free woman, who would expect to be thanked? Is it a trick? Is he thinking of her in terms of close chains, or the slave whip? Is he thinking of selling her? Has she already been sold, or given away? "Master," I said, softly, "may I speak?" Grendel turned to face me. |
| 45 | 230 | "Yes," he said. |
| 45 | 231 | "What occurred may have been seen from the portal," I said. |