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| 19 | 1028 | I even let him see me View more quotes about glance">glance at him once and then turned my head away, quickly, too quickly, as I now realize. |
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| 19 | 1025 | To be sure, such thoughts did not occur to me then. |
| 19 | 1026 | Rather I castigated myself for my timidity, and reminded myself, again and again, that it was I who was the free person, I who was in control, I who was in command, I who could have my way, as I pleased. |
| 19 | 1027 | Then I took to having the curtains of the palanquin opened, that I might be seen within, in my most beautiful robes and veils, as though I might wish fresher air and greater light, paused there perhaps in the midst of some business, waiting for some acquaintance. |
| 19 | 1028 | I even let him see me glance at him once and then turned my head away, quickly, too quickly, as I now realize. |
| 19 | 1029 | Perhaps I should have behaved more like a free woman, and had him ordered to the side of my palanquin, to kneel there and be questioned as a slave. |
| 19 | 1030 | Doubtless some women did, arrogating to themselves, as free women are free to do, the prerogatives of males. |
| 19 | 1031 | I wonder how they felt when the net descended on them. |