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| 21 | 268 | View more quotes about accordingly">Accordingly, it is understood that it is a mark of considerable favor for a slave to be allowed on the couch. |
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| 21 | 265 | Most slaves, and even the highest and most preferred of slaves occasionally, that they may not forget they are slaves, are used at the foot of the couch. |
| 21 | 266 | The surface of the couch is usually reserved for a Free Companion. |
| 21 | 267 | Indeed, many Free Companions will not even enter upon a couch if they suspect that a slave has served on its surface. |
| 21 | 268 | Accordingly, it is understood that it is a mark of considerable favor for a slave to be allowed on the couch. |
| 21 | 269 | Before entering upon it she will commonly kneel beside it and, head down, gratefully lift and kiss its coverlets or furs. |
| 21 | 270 | She is acutely sensitive of the honor, however undeserved, that is shown her, that she, no more than a slave, will be permitted to share the couch of a free man. |
| 21 | 271 | "Is Master listening?" asked Lavinia. |