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| 12 | 113 | What was I doing here? Why had I been purchased, and by men who, it View more quotes about seemed">seemed, seldom bothered to purchase women, preferring, it seemed, to acquire them in other manners? Why did they wish a girl here who was ignorant, or muchly so? I did not want to be here. |
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| 12 | 110 | The "pit" or "pits," I thought, must be near here. |
| 12 | 111 | Surely I was at least in their vicinity. |
| 12 | 112 | It was dark here, and cold. |
| 12 | 113 | What was I doing here? Why had I been purchased, and by men who, it seemed, seldom bothered to purchase women, preferring, it seemed, to acquire them in other manners? Why did they wish a girl here who was ignorant, or muchly so? I did not want to be here. |
| 12 | 114 | I was supposedly beautiful. |
| 12 | 115 | But of what use would be my beauty, if beauty it was, in this place, in the pits? Too, I was supposedly quite vital, unusually so, it seemed, even for this world. |
| 12 | 116 | My vitality, my sexuality, had, of course, been disparaged, belittled, denied, and starved on my own world. |