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| 26 | 708 | And what could View more quotes about better">better remind her of the past than that I should treat her in the present as though the past did not exist, treat her as no more than any other slave. |
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| 26 | 705 | This status is not something which a wise master lets a woman forget, ever. |
| 26 | 706 | So I divided the whipping into a more strictly punishment portion, which was scarcely more than a token considering her laxities and offenses, and Klima, and an instructional portion, which would seem rather routine and perfunctory, and in its way, considering our relationship, profoundly unsettling, and insulting. |
| 26 | 707 | It seemed to me then an excellent modality in which to conduct our relationship, seeming to drive a wedge between the past and the present. |
| 26 | 708 | And what could better remind her of the past than that I should treat her in the present as though the past did not exist, treat her as no more than any other slave. |
| 26 | 709 | To be sure, I would doubtless, from time to time, remember Klima. |
| 26 | 710 | But, on the whole, let her be treated as though she was not special to me, but merely another slave, one I might have picked up anywhere. |
| 26 | 711 | That she should be treated with indifference, or without special regard, as though she were only another girl, seemed fitting to me. |