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| 10 | 182 | The most obvious View more quotes about thing">thing about him, of course, now, from my point of view, was that he owned me, that he was my master. |
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| 10 | 179 | To some extent, I suppose, it satisfies them, and keeps them content, rather as one might throw meat to lions, by throwing a certain sort of woman in their way, the slave. |
| 10 | 180 | The man who owned me might indeed be, as I had first perceived him, in Market of Semris, he free, looking up at the slave block where I, a naked slave, displayed in high manacles, was being vended, too corpulent, too broad of girth, too gross, too scarred, too loathsome, too hideous, but now that I was his, and within reach of his whip, these initial perceptions were surely expanded or altered by other more pertinent, more trenchant ones. |
| 10 | 181 | I was now aware not so much of these first-glimpsed things, things which might occur to a stranger looking casually upon him for the first time, from a distance, as other things, things which became much clearer with closeness, closeness such as when one might be kneeling naked before him, so close he could reach out and touch you, a sense of intelligence, and power, and perception, such that one felt he could look through you, and see what was within you, anything, and uncompromising mastery, and perhaps mercilessness. |
| 10 | 182 | The most obvious thing about him, of course, now, from my point of view, was that he owned me, that he was my master. |
| 10 | 183 | "But you are not so frightened now," he said. |
| 10 | 184 | "No," I said. |
| 10 | 185 | "Why?" he asked. |