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| 13 | 225 | This deference, it View more quotes about might">might be mentioned, had not precluded, later, and the next day, the women gone, a number of rude jokes pertaining to them, nor some rather explicit speculations as to what they might look like, chained naked to a floor ring. |
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| 13 | 222 | This, I gathered, might be cultural, or perhaps he, somehow, oddly, despite his grotesque appearance, might be sensitive to some subtle canons of gentility. |
| 13 | 223 | I had noted that the guards in the pens had similarly shown great deference to free women. |
| 13 | 224 | To be sure, those free women might have been important, and they were certainly not prisoners. |
| 13 | 225 | This deference, it might be mentioned, had not precluded, later, and the next day, the women gone, a number of rude jokes pertaining to them, nor some rather explicit speculations as to what they might look like, chained naked to a floor ring. |
| 13 | 226 | The respect commonly shown to free women on this world is not, of course, accorded to slaves. |
| 13 | 227 | It would never have occurred to the pit master, or to other men of this world, to treat me as other than what I was, a slave. |
| 13 | 228 | How different we are from free women! And yet, interestingly, how artificial, and how fragile, and how culturally precarious, is the distinction between the free woman and the slave. |