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| 14 | 362 | How perceptive was this man! View more quotes about earlier">Earlier, weeks ago, once, and only briefly, I had considered, swiftly in fear putting the thought from me, that I might be able to use his interest in my favor, perhaps manipulating him, or, in virtue of it, somehow improving my lot. |
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| 14 | 359 | "You were struck," he said, "because you lied". |
| 14 | 360 | "Yes, Master," I said. |
| 14 | 361 | I lay there, startled, terrified now. |
| 14 | 362 | How perceptive was this man! Earlier, weeks ago, once, and only briefly, I had considered, swiftly in fear putting the thought from me, that I might be able to use his interest in my favor, perhaps manipulating him, or, in virtue of it, somehow improving my lot. |
| 14 | 363 | He had, it seems, sensed, or understood, this transitory, swiftly rejected consideration, probably from some fleeting expression, or movement of my body, one I had scarcely been aware of. |
| 14 | 364 | He had not chosen to punish me for that, a thing I could hardly help. |
| 14 | 365 | For that I was grateful. |