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| 22 | 34 | Many View more quotes about slaves">slaves are limited to their mat; other slaves are used on the furs, but the furs are commonly placed on the floor, at the foot of the master's couch. |
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| 22 | 31 | What was to be known? Who would know it? Who was this "other" who knew nothing? How could one who knew nothing, who suspected nothing, who understood nothing, be the key to what must be known? And what was it that must be known, and why must it be known? I felt myself lifted in powerful arms, and then, lightly, cast down amongst a plethora of rich furs, at the foot of the couch, those which had been removed from the couch. |
| 22 | 32 | I was half sunk in the furs, almost lost in them. |
| 22 | 33 | I had never been permitted to recline on such furs, though I had often cared for them, and arranged them on the surface of my master's couch. |
| 22 | 34 | Many slaves are limited to their mat; other slaves are used on the furs, but the furs are commonly placed on the floor, at the foot of the master's couch. |
| 22 | 35 | And some slaves are permitted on the surface of the couch itself, prized slaves, favored slaves, but, even in the case of such a slave, usually the neck, or at least one ankle, commonly the left ankle, is fastened to a slave ring. |
| 22 | 36 | The slave is not to be confused with a free companion. |
| 22 | 37 | The free companion, incidentally, as it has been explained to me, to protect her modesty, and make clear the difference between herself and a slave, is touched, if touched, only beneath the covers, she lightly robed, and in a dark room. |