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| 6 | 288 | Some View more quotes about slave">slave, I gathered, had failed to be fully pleasing. |
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| 6 | 285 | Someone entered the alcove. |
| 6 | 286 | Then a key was thrust into the shackle, and it was parted, and put aside. |
| 6 | 287 | At this point, from outside, presumably from within another alcove, I heard a woman cry out with misery, and then I heard, again and again, the fall of a lash. |
| 6 | 288 | Some slave, I gathered, had failed to be fully pleasing. |
| 6 | 289 | Perhaps she had spoken without permission; perhaps she had uttered a tart word; perhaps she had seemed the least bit cross, impatient, or critical; perhaps she had been hesitant to obey or, demurring, had questioned a command. |
| 6 | 290 | Perhaps her manner had suggested something of the haughtiness of the free woman. |
| 6 | 291 | Perhaps her fault lay in her diction or in some subtle lapse of deference. |