| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 173 | I was startled. |
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| 8 | 170 | She View more quotes about knelt">knelt before Drusus Rencius, her palms on the floor, her head to the very tiles. |
| 8 | 171 | "I beg for love," she whispered. |
| 8 | 172 | "I beg for love, Master". |
| 8 | 173 | I was startled. |
| 8 | 174 | I realized, suddenly, that these two women, indeed, were begging for love. |
| 8 | 175 | "Beg elsewhere, sluts!" I thought. |
| 8 | 176 | "Leave Drusus Rencius alone!" And how offensive that a woman should beg for love! Surely her intimate, desperate needs for attention, for affection and love were better concealed even from herself, if possible, and certainly, at least, from others! And if they must beg, the helpless sluts, did they not know how a woman begs, by looks, by glances, by small, hopeful services. |