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| 2 | 1066 | I saw it, in the darkness, emerging from the View more quotes about brush">brush. |
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| 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. |
| 2 | 1065 | My hand went before my mouth. |
| 2 | 1066 | I saw it, in the darkness, emerging from the brush. |
| 2 | 1067 | I thought, at first, because of its sinuous movement, that it was a great snake, but it was not. |
| 2 | 1068 | I thought, seeing it, holding itself closely to the ground, but yet free of the ground, that it might be a long-bodied lizard. |
| 2 | 1069 | Then, as moonlight fell through the tree branches in a pattern across its snout and neck, I saw not scales, but rippled fur, long and thick. |