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| 7 | 152 | Then they would View more quotes about either">either take pity on me, or not, as it pleased them. |
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| 7 | 149 | Indeed, sometimes, even thinking of it, I had screamed softly with passion. |
| 7 | 150 | More than once I had, in my former places, bared it to a guard, in mute petition, calling thusly to his attention what I was and what I wanted from him, and what I hoped for from him, and what I needed from him, thusly pleading without words that he might deign to take pity upon me. |
| 7 | 151 | But often they would not so spare my pride and would have me at their feet, licking and kissing, and begging explicitly. |
| 7 | 152 | Then they would either take pity on me, or not, as it pleased them. |
| 7 | 153 | Sometimes, of course, we would be denied human speech. |
| 7 | 154 | At such times we must make known our needs by other means, such things as moans and whimpers, and tears. |
| 7 | 155 | But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to implement certain practical concerns of property, and merchant, law. |