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| 14 | 377 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps Vella, even now, had been returned to her quarters, perhaps adjoining a larger area for the keeping of less-favored female slaves; where she would wait until commanded by men, perhaps to her exercises or bath, or silks, or cosmetics, to her beautification, or to small, suitable servile tasks, useful in reminding a girl that she is a slave, or perhaps, if fortunate, to the couch of her master, or, if it was his pleasure, to those to whom he saw fit to give her. |
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| 14 | 374 | Vella's perfume, I thought, doubtless a tribute to the skills of some perfumer, had suited her superbly. |
| 14 | 375 | It fitted her well, like a measured collar. |
| 14 | 376 | I smiled. |
| 14 | 377 | Perhaps Vella, even now, had been returned to her quarters, perhaps adjoining a larger area for the keeping of less-favored female slaves; where she would wait until commanded by men, perhaps to her exercises or bath, or silks, or cosmetics, to her beautification, or to small, suitable servile tasks, useful in reminding a girl that she is a slave, or perhaps, if fortunate, to the couch of her master, or, if it was his pleasure, to those to whom he saw fit to give her. |
| 14 | 378 | But it was early. |
| 14 | 379 | Doubtless her silk had merely been taken from her and she had been locked in her quarters, or cell, as it might be. |
| 14 | 380 | As Vella was apparently a high slave, a preferred slave, I did not think she would be kept in the general slave quarters and have an assigned alcove. |