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| 19 | 1042 | The contrast was View more quotes about attractive">attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck. |
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| 19 | 1039 | Her hands, her fingers on her thighs, digging into them, as though they would anchor themselves there, half covered it. |
| 19 | 1040 | Her grip was partly through the cloth and partly on her thighs. |
| 19 | 1041 | Midway in her grip came the garment's frayed hem, pressed down on her fair, sweet thighs. |
| 19 | 1042 | The contrast was attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck. |
| 19 | 1043 | "Indeed," I said, "slaves, in their subtle, vulnerable, helpless ways, in their beggingness, in their humbleness, in their deferentiality, in the very nature and entirety of their condition, have many better ways of calling themselves to the attention of a man than a free woman". |
| 19 | 1044 | "But I did not understand that at the time," she said. |
| 19 | 1045 | "I would suppose not," I said. |