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| 6 | 282 | That had occurred View more quotes about during">during, and I had kept them that way afterwards, the beating on the wagon of the woman, and her screaming. |
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| 6 | 279 | It seemed, now, too, to be moving on a level, on a wooden, planked surface. |
| 6 | 280 | It sounded hollow beneath the wheels. |
| 6 | 281 | I realized, suddenly, that my knees were pressed closely together. |
| 6 | 282 | That had occurred during, and I had kept them that way afterwards, the beating on the wagon of the woman, and her screaming. |
| 6 | 283 | It had been a defensive gesture, bringing my knees together, tightly, because I was afraid. |
| 6 | 284 | Perhaps, too, I supposed, just as a male might find the spreading of a female's knees appropriate, deferential or placatory, so, too, such a woman might prefer their closure, finding it respectful, or placatory. |
| 6 | 285 | Perhaps she might be mollified to some extent by such an apparent modesty. |