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| 24 | 526 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, my judicious, relentless tormenting of her, the cruelty of my questioning, had done much to confirm not only the words of Ibn Saran, but my own conjectures. |
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| 24 | 523 | I pondered this for a moment. |
| 24 | 524 | Ibn Saran, as I recalled, had informed me that Vella had changed, that she had, I gathered, come to some deeper understanding of her needs, her desires, herself. |
| 24 | 525 | I did not, based on what had earlier transpired, doubt this. |
| 24 | 526 | Indeed, my judicious, relentless tormenting of her, the cruelty of my questioning, had done much to confirm not only the words of Ibn Saran, but my own conjectures. |
| 24 | 527 | I had not been gentle with the slave, but, too, I remembered Klima. |
| 24 | 528 | Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow commiserate with her and regard her as a free woman unfortunately placed in bondage. |
| 24 | 529 | But from Ibn Saran I had learned she had, her brittle defenses overridden and crushed, learned that, instead, on Earth, she had been a slave who, merely, had not yet been placed in bondage. |