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| 16 | 560 | And how View more quotes about different">different was she, she thought, from the free women, they in their robes, resplendent in the glory of their liberty, she a stripped slave, chained on a public shelf. |
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| 16 | 557 | It was clear to her, and to all, that they were women, of course, even concealed and veiled. |
| 16 | 558 | How different they were from the men with their large, agile, leonine bodies. |
| 16 | 559 | How different we are from them, she thought. |
| 16 | 560 | And how different was she, she thought, from the free women, they in their robes, resplendent in the glory of their liberty, she a stripped slave, chained on a public shelf. |
| 16 | 561 | How could she even think of comparing herself with them? But are they, such lofty, proud creatures, happy, she wondered. |
| 16 | 562 | She wondered, too, how many of them might one day find themselves chained in a market, or grasping the bars of a slave cage, or looking up fearfully, trembling, kneeling and bound, into the eyes of a master, to read their fate. |
| 16 | 563 | She recalled a saying she had heard in the house, that beneath the clothes of every woman there is to be found the body of a naked slave. |