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| 19 | 1031 | I View more quotes about wonder">wonder how they felt when the net descended on them. |
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| 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. |
| 19 | 1032 | But at least I was not a slave. |
| 19 | 1033 | I could be forward, if I wished, I could call myself to his attention, even demanding it, if I wished". |
| 19 | 1034 | "Slaves," said I, "as you must now know, have many ways of calling themselves to the attention of a man, subtly, effectively, pleadingly, vulnerably, helplessly, deferentially, humbly". |