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| 16 | 646 | My View more quotes about beauty">beauty, if beauty it was, was intended to have its purpose in certain plans. |
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| 16 | 643 | "Yes, Master," I said. |
| 16 | 644 | And so it seemed that I, a lowly slave, figured somehow, in no way I clearly understood, in some obscure affair of state. |
| 16 | 645 | I now better understood, as well, my having been obtained. |
| 16 | 646 | My beauty, if beauty it was, was intended to have its purpose in certain plans. |
| 16 | 647 | It was, it seemed, to be as food exhibited to a starving man. |
| 16 | 648 | And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a free man, would be attended by such a slave, a mere pierced-ear girl, and one who would be clad in such a way before him, and behave in such a way before him, one whom he, to his misery, would be unable either to enjoy or punish. |
| 16 | 649 | He must endure, even, it seemed, if they had their way, the provocations, the mockery, of a slave. |