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| 17 | 65 | And then one View more quotes about night">night, when the fires were low, for no reason I clearly understood, I begged that I might be permitted to know him. |
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| 17 | 62 | Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must find herself to be humbled as a mere, rightless, collared wench; and sometimes I would be a lonely slave, or a drunken slave, or a defiant girl, determined to resist, or a cruel red-silk slave, determined herself to conquer, but, in the end, finding herself his conquest, and in all this, always, his El-in-or. |
| 17 | 63 | But, too, sometimes Rask of Treve, after touching me, would hold me, and kiss me, for long hours. |
| 17 | 64 | I did not truly understand him in these hours, but in his arms lay content and fulfilled. |
| 17 | 65 | And then one night, when the fires were low, for no reason I clearly understood, I begged that I might be permitted to know him. |
| 17 | 66 | "Speak to me of yourself," he said. |
| 17 | 67 | I told him of my childhood, my girlhood, and my parents, and the pet my mother had poisoned, and of New York, and my world, and my capture, and my life before it had begun, before he had seen me naked in the cell of the Koroban pens. |
| 17 | 68 | And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons. |