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| 12 | 742 | In a View more quotes about different">different situation, of course, this might have constituted a suitable and humiliating punishment, involving a public reduction in her status, particularly before other girls. |
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| 12 | 739 | "First," said Boots, "you will surrender your slippers". |
| 12 | 740 | "Yes, Master," she said, delightedly, and, sitting down, slipped them from her feet. |
| 12 | 741 | She then knelt again before him, and handed him the slippers. |
| 12 | 742 | In a different situation, of course, this might have constituted a suitable and humiliating punishment, involving a public reduction in her status, particularly before other girls. |
| 12 | 743 | The removal of her footwear might have served to punish her for some flaw in her performance, such as a crookedly sewn seam or a poorly served meal, or might, say, have indicated some fall on her part from the favor of the master. |
| 12 | 744 | Similar punishments can involve the changing of a woman's clothing or its removal altogether. |
| 12 | 745 | In this situation, of course, such a punishment, the removal of her right to footwear, was almost absurdly trivial. |