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| 7 | 885 | Why, then, was I View more quotes about terrified">terrified of her, she only a slave? I think it was because I feared she might release in me things which I feared to understand, because I feared she might release in me something proud and savage, something which would be a stranger to apologies and pretenses, something long-forgotten and mighty, something which had been bred in caves and the hunt, something which might be called a man. |
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| 7 | 882 | "You have nothing to fear from me," I said. |
| 7 | 883 | "Yes, Master," she said. |
| 7 | 884 | Surely she must know that she had nothing to fear from one such as I who would treat her with dignity and respect. |
| 7 | 885 | Why, then, was I terrified of her, she only a slave? I think it was because I feared she might release in me things which I feared to understand, because I feared she might release in me something proud and savage, something which would be a stranger to apologies and pretenses, something long-forgotten and mighty, something which had been bred in caves and the hunt, something which might be called a man. |
| 7 | 886 | I looked upon the girl, the kneeling slave. |
| 7 | 887 | For an instant I felt a surgency of power. |
| 7 | 888 | Then I recalled that I must not be a man, for manhood was prohibited and forbidden; it was something to be belittled and ridiculed. |