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| 24 | 440 | She had not been View more quotes about permitted">permitted to change her silks, and they were parted in the back, where the whip had cut through them. |
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| 24 | 437 | And, as she knelt down by the cosmetics table, she thought to herself, "I have not yet been beaten. |
| 24 | 438 | But what shall I do now? Surely I am no more than the width of a strand of slave silk from the blows of the lash". |
| 24 | 439 | The second time the beaten slave, 51, Dara, had apparently danced well. |
| 24 | 440 | She had not been permitted to change her silks, and they were parted in the back, where the whip had cut through them. |
| 24 | 441 | In her dance she had piteously, and abjectly, made it clear to the masters that not only did she now respect them, but that she was now pathetically concerned to subject herself to their pleasure, even as though she were their own slave. |
| 24 | 442 | Gone was now any arrogance or haughtiness. |
| 24 | 443 | Gone now was any suggestion that she might be too good to dance for such as they. |