| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 1061 | Without him I would have been helpless, utterly. |
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| 2 | 1058 | My View more quotes about single">single and only defense was the steel and prowess of the man who stood between me and what, some yards away, rustled in the dark brush. |
| 2 | 1059 | I depended upon him, completely. |
| 2 | 1060 | I needed him. |
| 2 | 1061 | Without him I would have been helpless, utterly. |
| 2 | 1062 | I moaned thinking of how defenseless women must be on this world. |
| 2 | 1063 | I supposed they might carry perhaps a slim blade, manageable to their small strength and weight, a poniard or dagger, but what if an assailant, such as the man in whose power I was, was simply to take it from them? I did not know it at the time but girls such as I was to be were not permitted to carry even so slight a weapon as a woman's dagger. |
| 2 | 1064 | Girls such as I was to be were completely dependent upon the protection of men, and whether they chose to extend it or not. |