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| 9 | 280 | From what I had View more quotes about heard">heard there were few of the lower castes on the proscription lists. |
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| 9 | 277 | "Of high caste?" asked a fellow. |
| 9 | 278 | "Many," said the newcomer, "for what women, if not of high caste, would be in a position to secure coin and power by serving the enemy, to reveal secrets, to supply information, to corner, manage, and horde goods, to wheedle concessions and arrange clandestine sources of supply and private markets, to profit from the occupation?" I supposed there would always be such, in any city. |
| 9 | 279 | Women of lower caste could do little more than consort with the enemy. |
| 9 | 280 | From what I had heard there were few of the lower castes on the proscription lists. |
| 9 | 281 | Perhaps they were less important, or less visible, or would be less readily denounced, being less hated. |
| 9 | 282 | Or perhaps they had less to offer the enemy, and thus were of less interest to them Or perhaps they were stronger than their betters, more willing to suffer and wait, and endure. |
| 9 | 283 | "And so," said the newcomer, "women who once would not have consented to speak to you through the curtains of their palanquins, women who would have scorned you in Ar, who held themselves so superior, who would have regarded you as less than the dust beneath their slippers, now, if sufficiently beautiful, naked and collared, will carry buckets of hot water to your baths". |