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| 22 | 113 | Asperiche was a very intelligent View more quotes about woman">woman, and in pretending shyness, a trepidation, an overt, too obvious unwillingness to speak, a fearing to speak, might have signaled her desire to speak, and, perhaps, thus call herself to the attention of a handsome fellow, if only for the nonce, as a vessel of information, a rather lovely vessel. |
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| 22 | 110 | "Proceed," I said. |
| 22 | 111 | I supposed that this Axel of Argentum, or whoever he was, had probably overheard the discourse of slaves. |
| 22 | 112 | In fact, I would not have been surprised if he had overhead this matter from Asperiche herself, who had it from other slaves. |
| 22 | 113 | Asperiche was a very intelligent woman, and in pretending shyness, a trepidation, an overt, too obvious unwillingness to speak, a fearing to speak, might have signaled her desire to speak, and, perhaps, thus call herself to the attention of a handsome fellow, if only for the nonce, as a vessel of information, a rather lovely vessel. |
| 22 | 114 | Might he not be curious, and thus command her to speak, to which command she, as kajira, however unwillingly, however tearfully, must helplessly respond, however reluctant she might be to do so. |
| 22 | 115 | And, in this way, once he was apprised of the matter, she might pretend to me she had the information from him. |
| 22 | 116 | And certainly he would then know of it. |