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| 16 | 546 | In removing the View more quotes about veil">veil from a woman's face, one takes her from herself; one denies her to herself; one makes her public, so to speak, like a slave. |
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| 16 | 543 | "Remove her veil" is a command she dreads to hear, one which strikes with fear and misery to the heart of her being. |
| 16 | 544 | The vulgar expression for this is "face-stripping". |
| 16 | 545 | This makes some sense to me, as the face is so expressive. |
| 16 | 546 | In removing the veil from a woman's face, one takes her from herself; one denies her to herself; one makes her public, so to speak, like a slave. |
| 16 | 547 | Ellen thought that perhaps the Robes of Concealment were not to be entrusted to common laundries. |
| 16 | 548 | That was why, perhaps, she had seen few, if any, in the laundry. |
| 16 | 549 | Perhaps special slaves, with cleaning chemicals, attended to them. |