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| 18 | 81 | The View more quotes about woman">woman is then placed in a coarse, sacklike garment, usually a sul sack with holes cut in it for the head and arms, and returned scornfully, rejected, her wrists thonged behind her, to the vicinity of her city. |
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| 18 | 78 | There seems, incidentally, to be a general view among hostile cities that the women of the enemy belong to them in some sense, that they are already in some sense their slaves—it is then just a matter of bringing them into their rightful collars. |
| 18 | 79 | The committee of peers, so to speak, in the "trophy case," may either rule favorably or unfavorably on the catch. |
| 18 | 80 | Let us suppose they rule unfavorably. |
| 18 | 81 | The woman is then placed in a coarse, sacklike garment, usually a sul sack with holes cut in it for the head and arms, and returned scornfully, rejected, her wrists thonged behind her, to the vicinity of her city. |
| 18 | 82 | Occasionally this is done with a stunningly beautiful woman, which is to say to the enemy, "even the most beautiful of your women is not worthy of a collar in a city such as ours". |
| 18 | 83 | The effect on the woman, of course, is often pathetically unsettling. |
| 18 | 84 | It is not unusual that such a woman will afterwards take to wandering the high bridges and lonely streets, the hem of her garments hitched above her ankles, perhaps that she not soil them, her veils disarranged a bit, perhaps by the wind. |