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| 13 | 696 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure, I did not doubt but what on one level they feared and dreaded the very notion of the piercing of their ears but, too, on another level, a much deeper level, I think they were deeply fascinated, and deeply stirred, by the idea. |
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| 13 | 693 | I was confident, though I may have been mistaken, of course, that the reaction to the threat of the pit master had not been one of unmitigated scandal and horror. |
| 13 | 694 | I thought I detected something else which was involved. |
| 13 | 695 | The feelings of the women, I gathered, were not unmixed. |
| 13 | 696 | To be sure, I did not doubt but what on one level they feared and dreaded the very notion of the piercing of their ears but, too, on another level, a much deeper level, I think they were deeply fascinated, and deeply stirred, by the idea. |
| 13 | 697 | I think they found it disturbingly exciting, and arousing. |
| 13 | 698 | I sensed this, seeing how some knelt back trembling, quivering, against the wall, and others lifted their fingers to their ear lobes, as though, even now, they might feel adornments fixed there. |
| 13 | 699 | Their feelings with respect to the piercing of their ears seemed to me, in short, profoundly ambivalent. |