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| 20 | 602 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, some free women seem to be so modest, dallying and such, hobbling, and stumbling along, in their robes, that it seems that they would prefer to be peremptorily stripped by a slaver, rather than risk revealing their legs to fellow citizens. |
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| 20 | 599 | It takes time to remove them. |
| 20 | 600 | Sometimes a free woman, the platforms discarded, will lift her ornate robes to the thigh, to free her legs to run. |
| 20 | 601 | This can, of course, be a source of great embarrassment to the woman as, commonly, it is only the legs of a slave which are bared. |
| 20 | 602 | Indeed, some free women seem to be so modest, dallying and such, hobbling, and stumbling along, in their robes, that it seems that they would prefer to be peremptorily stripped by a slaver, rather than risk revealing their legs to fellow citizens. |
| 20 | 603 | But then perhaps, on some level, in a part of her, she wants to be captured. |
| 20 | 604 | One does not know. |
| 20 | 605 | Her discomfiture, in any event, footwear discarded, robes lifted, should she brazenly dare such boldness, flouting cultural decrees, as you might suppose, is often welcomed even by her defenders, though, one supposes, they will be civil enough to conceal their amusement and interest. |