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| 8 | 291 | Why should I be humiliated? Why, View more quotes about rather">rather, should I not be grateful, be proud? Let the free woman be humiliated, surely not the slave! Commonly, I knew, it is only attractive slaves who are struck so. |
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| 8 | 288 | Only a few Ehn before, I had been struck below the small of my back, a swift, sharp slap. |
| 8 | 289 | My fundament still stung. |
| 8 | 290 | I smiled. |
| 8 | 291 | Why should I be humiliated? Why, rather, should I not be grateful, be proud? Let the free woman be humiliated, surely not the slave! Commonly, I knew, it is only attractive slaves who are struck so. |
| 8 | 292 | The slave wishes to be attractive to men. |
| 8 | 293 | Much in her life can depend on that, and, too, it is natural for her, for she is a slave. |
| 8 | 294 | How free one is as a slave! I moved forward, afresh. |