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| 50 | 471 | Who is the most skillful player, she with the most victories, the most discomfited, shattered swains, she who is to be most admired, the most emulated, and View more quotes about perhaps">perhaps the most envied? But I was not such a woman. |
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| 50 | 468 | Might I not make my companioning, if I were interested in such, a prize in a game many might play, and from which, at my whim, I might withdraw? Might I not sell myself, on my own terms, as I saw fit, to the highest bidder, for station, and wealth? But there is no hurry in such matters. |
| 50 | 469 | Lure, seem to promise, and then deny. |
| 50 | 470 | What powers are at the disposition of the free woman! Is it not a pastime most pleasant, one of the more diverting of sports, and one which, with its anecdotes, stories, and amusements, is twice delightful, once in its enactment, and then, again, in its recounting? Accounts of such exploits surely afford the gist of many a meeting amongst oneself and one's free sisters. |
| 50 | 471 | Who is the most skillful player, she with the most victories, the most discomfited, shattered swains, she who is to be most admired, the most emulated, and perhaps the most envied? But I was not such a woman. |
| 50 | 472 | I was a slave. |
| 50 | 473 | No such tactics, pleasantries, and stratagems could be mine. |
| 50 | 474 | We are at the disposal of the free. |