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| 2 | 303 | The View more quotes about beauty">beauty ate it eagerly. |
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| 2 | 300 | I did not forget the slave, of course. |
| 2 | 301 | Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards before her. |
| 2 | 302 | It was slave bread, rough and coarse-grained. |
| 2 | 303 | The beauty ate it eagerly. |
| 2 | 304 | She had not known if she was to be fed that day. |
| 2 | 305 | Sometimes the slave is not fed. |
| 2 | 306 | This might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or disciplinary measure; sometimes merely to startle or puzzle her; what has she done; she is not told; has she not been sufficiently pleasing; she is not told; the girl, frightened, anxious, redoubles her efforts to please in all the thousand spheres of her slavery, intellectual, physical and imaginative; no master, it is said, who has not denied his girl food knows her; pleasant indeed are the surprises which such a fellow, who thought thitherto he knew his girl, upon the completion of the simple experiment, receives; the girl's wits are sharpened; she becomes resourceful, helpless, desperate, attentive, inventive; "Feed me!" she begs. |