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| 16 | 1292 | The View more quotes about long">long garments, usually worn by free women, such as that now worn by Boabissia, might cover certain defects of gait perhaps, but when one's legs are bared, as a slave's commonly are, one must walk with beauty and grace. |
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| 16 | 1289 | Perhaps they are ashamed of it, or fear it. |
| 16 | 1290 | Few free women walk in such a way as to display their beauty, as, for example, a slave must. |
| 16 | 1291 | I considered the length of garments. |
| 16 | 1292 | The long garments, usually worn by free women, such as that now worn by Boabissia, might cover certain defects of gait perhaps, but when one's legs are bared, as a slave's commonly are, one must walk with beauty and grace. |
| 16 | 1293 | Too, given the scantiness of many slave garments, it is sometimes necessary to walk in them with exquisite care. |
| 16 | 1294 | The slave, for example, and this is commonly included in her training, seldom bends over to retrieve a fallen object. |
| 16 | 1295 | Rather she flexes her knees, lowering the body beautifully, and retrieves the object from a graceful and humble crouch. |