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| 5 | 71 | Was I not legally View more quotes about free">free! I was free! I behaved so, as I did, you must understand, merely in order to mitigate my fears, to face, taunt, defy, and deny them, to ridicule them, to prove them groundless, only that. |
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| 5 | 68 | And so I gave attention to my figure, with diet and exercise, gave attention to my hair, improved my makeup, enlarged my wardrobe, and made it a point to dress flatteringly I was careful now with respect to my posture, my speech, and demeanor, and carried my head high, as might a lofty, frigid free woman. |
| 5 | 69 | How meretricious that was, as I knew myself, in my heart, a slave. |
| 5 | 70 | My head should have been bowed! And I should have feared the lash! But it was a game, a form of acting, you must understand. |
| 5 | 71 | Was I not legally free! I was free! I behaved so, as I did, you must understand, merely in order to mitigate my fears, to face, taunt, defy, and deny them, to ridicule them, to prove them groundless, only that. |
| 5 | 72 | How horrifying then if, despite my intentions, so well- meaning and innocent, it might have been this very charade which has brought me to my chains, in a Gorean dungeon, awaiting shipment, with others, we know not where. |
| 5 | 73 | I do know we are near the docks, for I can hear waves washing against pilings, and smell the sea. |
| 5 | 74 | We are naked, the chains are heavy. |