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| 21 | 25 | No longer would she, in her View more quotes about free">free woman's scorn, shower contempt on bondmaids, trying to make them ashamed of their beauty. |
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| 21 | 22 | Yet was the Blue Tooth fond of the arrogant wench. |
| 21 | 23 | It was not until he had switched her, like any other girl, that she understood that their relationship had undergone a transformation, and that she was, truly, precisely what she seemed to be, now his bondmaid. |
| 21 | 24 | No longer would her dour presence deprive his feasts of joy. |
| 21 | 25 | No longer would she, in her free woman's scorn, shower contempt on bondmaids, trying to make them ashamed of their beauty. |
| 21 | 26 | She, too, now, was no more than they. |
| 21 | 27 | She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she knew, as an embonded wench, that others would; it was not, indeed, until her reduction to slavery that she realized, for the first time, how fine a male, how attractive and how powerful, was Svein Blue Tooth, whom she had for years taken for granted; seeing him objectively for the first time, from the perspective of a slave girl, who is nothing herself, and comparing him with other free men, she realized suddenly how mighty, how splendid and magnificent he truly was. |
| 21 | 28 | She set herself diligently to please him, in service and in pleasure, and, if he would permit it, in love. |