| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 4 | 820 | Yet I wore a brand. |
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| 4 | 817 | But, more View more quotes about beautiful">beautiful though I might be on its account, it marked me incontrovertibly as a slave. |
| 4 | 818 | I wished to escape. |
| 4 | 819 | I looked at the thorn brush. |
| 4 | 820 | Yet I wore a brand. |
| 4 | 821 | Could there be a true escape, on a world such as this, for a branded girl? Would that mark not continue to say, to anyone, and all, softly, persistently, each instant, each moment, every hour of the day and night, when anyone might care to glance upon it, "Here is a slave"? Could there be an escape, on a world such as this, for a girl who wore such a mark? If it should be so much as glimpsed, would not such a girl be instantly placed in chains and a collar? Perhaps I might steal clothing, but the brand would still be on my body, marking me. |
| 4 | 822 | Suppose men, suspicious, would turn me over to free women, that my body might be, without compromise to my dignity lest I be free, examined by them. |
| 4 | 823 | When they discovered the mark, worn by a girl masquerading as one of their own lofty station, a woman free, would they not in fury, with whips, drive me stripped, begging for mercy, weeping, to the waiting shackles of the men? What escape, what freedom, could there be for a girl who wore a brand? I looked at the brand. |