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| 4 | 293 | But if I should but beg a kindness, humbly, I feared it View more quotes about might">might be refused, that she might reject me in this as she had in all other things, my manhood and my humanity. |
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| 4 | 290 | But most perhaps, incredible as it might seem, I feared that if I asked for a kindness, even a word or a gesture, it would be refused. |
| 4 | 291 | Alone and slave, beaten and degraded, I found myself desperately in need of something, be it almost nothing, to indicate that I was a man, a human being, something that might, to some extent or degree, be worthy of respect or understanding. |
| 4 | 292 | I think that if she, this proud woman, before whom I felt myself nothing, she my mistress, if she had but cared to speak a word of simple kindness to me I might have cried out with gladness, willingly serving her in all things she asked. |
| 4 | 293 | But if I should but beg a kindness, humbly, I feared it might be refused, that she might reject me in this as she had in all other things, my manhood and my humanity. |
| 4 | 294 | And fused with this, excruciating in the pain of it, was my desire for her, the crying out of my blood that she had so, and deliberately, aroused. |
| 4 | 295 | In the darkness I sensed her, and her lips, but an inch from my own. |
| 4 | 296 | She had not deigned to move. |