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| 26 | 69 | In such a case she is View more quotes about considered">considered no differently, and treated no differently than if she were a girl brought in on tarnback from a distant city. |
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| 26 | 66 | If he does not accept her as a Free Companion—and few men of Tharna will be in a mood to extend the privileges of Free Companionship to a silver mask—he may then, without further ado, simply collar her as his slave, or if he wishes he may reject her completely. |
| 26 | 67 | If she is rejected she may propose herself similarly to yet another of the men of Tharna, and perhaps yet another and another. |
| 26 | 68 | After the six months, however—perhaps she has been reluctant to seek a master?—her initiative in these matters is lost and she belongs to the first man who encircles her throat with the graceful, gleaming badge of servitude. |
| 26 | 69 | In such a case she is considered no differently, and treated no differently than if she were a girl brought in on tarnback from a distant city. |
| 26 | 70 | In effect, considering the temper of the men of Tharna, Lara's judgment gives the silver masks the opportunity, for a time, to choose a master, or after that time to be themselves chosen as a slave girl. |
| 26 | 71 | Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place. |
| 26 | 72 | Perhaps Lara understood, as I did not, that women such as silver masks must be taught love, and can learn it only from a master. |