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| 7 | 354 | I reared View more quotes about half">half up, helplessly, a wild cry stifled by the wet silk I clenched between my teeth. |
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| 7 | 351 | I had often begged to be put forth for use, to lie chained between the tables for the use of guests, to be fastened even to a bench in the garden, my use a gratuity for those who worked there, or to be sent, gratefully, ecstatically, back-braceleted, a sheet over me, to the quarters of guards, but the one who was first amongst us, who seemed to hate me, for no reason I could understand, had, almost invariably, to my pain and my misery, to my suffering, denied me these things. |
| 7 | 352 | I looked back, wildly, frightened, to the height of the wall, above and behind me. |
| 7 | 353 | I feared a guard might make his rounds, that he might see! Then he who was with me touched me, gently. |
| 7 | 354 | I reared half up, helplessly, a wild cry stifled by the wet silk I clenched between my teeth. |
| 7 | 355 | He placed his hand over my mouth. |
| 7 | 356 | Then he removed it. |
| 7 | 357 | I had been unable to help myself. |