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| 11 | 156 | What could I do? How vulnerable, how View more quotes about helpless">helpless, is the slave! If I were to improve my lot on this world, I reasoned, I, a slave, had little to hope for from free women. |
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| 11 | 153 | I was owned by the miller, of course, as the other girls, but he had never touched me, and had scarcely regarded me. |
| 11 | 154 | Perhaps, I supposed, he pleasured himself with the "silk girls," those who went about on the cart with the miller's men, attending to their deliveries. |
| 11 | 155 | I was miserable, leaning forward, thrusting at the pole. |
| 11 | 156 | What could I do? How vulnerable, how helpless, is the slave! If I were to improve my lot on this world, I reasoned, I, a slave, had little to hope for from free women. |
| 11 | 157 | My hope was men. |
| 11 | 158 | Surely I might, as a free woman might not, and a slave might, be able to influence my situation. |
| 11 | 159 | I shook the manacles on my wrists in anger. |