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| 11 | 194 | It was View more quotes about rather">rather as though it were to be expected, as though it were something to be taken for granted, something obvious, something to be accomplished in the normal course of things, at least with one such as she. |
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| 11 | 191 | How routinely she had been branded and collared! To be sure, he had waited until he had had his fill of amusement, or vengeance, exploiting her, humiliating her, commanding her, exhibiting her before his guests, having her perform before them. |
| 11 | 192 | Then she had been routinely branded and collared. |
| 11 | 193 | Is it so obvious, she had asked herself, that I am a slave, that I should be a slave? But on a world such as this what could a woman such as I be but a slave? Is that not the purpose for which women such as I are brought to this world, to be the helpless, rightless slaves of absolute and sovereign masters? But had he not, apart from such things, aside from all such considerations, such general things, simply looked upon me long ago, personally, individually, uniquely, and seen that I was a slave, and should be a slave? Had he conjectured me then, I wonder, stripped, perhaps bound helplessly, hand and foot, lying before him, at his feet, his? Certainly there had been little ceremony about it. |
| 11 | 194 | It was rather as though it were to be expected, as though it were something to be taken for granted, something obvious, something to be accomplished in the normal course of things, at least with one such as she. |
| 11 | 195 | She had been taken to a room, where she had been stripped and had had her hands braceleted behind her; she had then been placed in the rack, in which her left leg had been held immobile. |
| 11 | 196 | The marking itself took only a few moments. |
| 11 | 197 | While she was gasping, and sobbing, and crying, shuddering, trying to comprehend the enormity of what had been done to her, the collar had been put on her neck, and locked. |