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| 42 | 219 | At the View more quotes about first">first opportunity, in privacy, might I not be done away with, to protect a secret I had no wish to share? Commonly the slave's protection is her collar, and her standing, or lack of standing, as a domestic beast, her marketability, and such. |
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| 42 | 216 | I had witnessed their interaction, even to the overhearing of their words. |
| 42 | 217 | Seremides had perhaps indicated to Vas of Anango, his fellow, that I was to be taken in hand. |
| 42 | 218 | Otherwise might I not interfere, give warning, or sound an alarm? I was miserable with fear that I had heard far too much for my own good. |
| 42 | 219 | At the first opportunity, in privacy, might I not be done away with, to protect a secret I had no wish to share? Commonly the slave's protection is her collar, and her standing, or lack of standing, as a domestic beast, her marketability, and such. |
| 42 | 220 | She is not a free person. |
| 42 | 221 | Indeed, legally, she is not a person. |
| 42 | 222 | Who would be so stupid as to cast aside seized loot or destroy a snared, vendible animal, particularly one likely to be attractive? Now, however, in virtue of what I had heard, I feared that such common assurances, so often relied upon, might no longer obtain. |