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| 34 | 692 | I View more quotes about must">must have been mistaken in this. |
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| 34 | 689 | Why could they not recognize this? Why could they not explicitly acknowledge this truth, so patent a truth? Because the slave was merely a slave, nothing, only a silken beast and a shapely property! And how foolish a slave to hope that a master might care for one so worthless and despicable as she! And that a master might fall so low as to care for a slave! Would he not be mad? How incomprehensible would be such a descent and failing! The slave is merely goods to be bought and sold, an object to be mastered, a beast to be strictly controlled, something by which to be pleased and served, something from which inordinate pleasure is to be derived. |
| 34 | 690 | How amused would be his fellows! Would he not become an object of their raillery, the butt of their rude humor? How outraged would be free women! To care for a slave! Absurd! Unthinkable! I timidly looked up at my master. |
| 34 | 691 | Suddenly I did not think he was that displeased that I had so bespoken myself before him. |
| 34 | 692 | I must have been mistaken in this. |
| 34 | 693 | He scowled again upon me. |
| 34 | 694 | Then he turned away, and looked in that direction in which lay the Viktel Aria. |
| 34 | 695 | "Does master not wish to look upon his slave?" I asked. |