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| 18 | 150 | She was especially View more quotes about careful">careful where free women were concerned. |
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| 18 | 147 | The first time, she stood alone within the lower portal, back in the shadows, cringing, miserable, terrified, for more than fifteen Ehn. |
| 18 | 148 | How could she, with her background, her antecedents, her education, her former status and station, her delicacy, her beauty, her shyness, her inhibitions, even think of leaving the cylinder, of going forth as she was? Then, after that time, sobbing, fearing she might be whipped for dallying, she stepped boldly out into the sunlight, a stripped slave in the streets. |
| 18 | 149 | She avoided contact, of course, with the free persons, taking care not to brush against them, not to inconvenience them, not to impede their passage in any way. |
| 18 | 150 | She was especially careful where free women were concerned. |
| 18 | 151 | If her eyes might inadvertently meet those of a free person, she immediately lowered her head, and hurried on. |
| 18 | 152 | Sometimes she knelt, hurriedly, in first-obeisance position. |
| 18 | 153 | Once, in such a contretemps, she had found herself under the eyes of a free woman, the woman's eyes cold with contempt. |