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| 4 | 537 | "No! No!" I had View more quotes about seen">seen girls in the palace do that, for example, when a free man had entered a room. |
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| 4 | 534 | "No!" I said. |
| 4 | 535 | I saw her spread her knees. |
| 4 | 536 | "No," I said. |
| 4 | 537 | "No! No!" I had seen girls in the palace do that, for example, when a free man had entered a room. |
| 4 | 538 | Sometimes, too, in identically this same position, they would keep their heads submissively lowered, until given permission to raise them. |
| 4 | 539 | This variation, and similar variations, depend on the specific discipline to which a given girl is subjected. |
| 4 | 540 | The head is usually kept raised; this precludes the necessity of a specific command to lift the head; in the head-lifted position she has no choice but to bare her facial beauty to the viewer; too, her least expression may be read; too, of course, she can see who is in the room with her and is thus better able, even from the first instant, to discern his moods, anticipate his needs, and respond to his commands. |