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| 27 | 1415 | But the View more quotes about cruel">cruel plan of Mirus had failed of its realization! She had, it seems, done well! How frustrated, how furious, he must have been. |
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| 27 | 1412 | Similarly, consider the kissing of the whip. |
| 27 | 1413 | Imagine the feelings of a free woman forced to kiss the whip, perhaps finding her feelings surprisingly and troublesomely delicious, and those of the slave, grateful to be permitted an opportunity to perform this beautiful symbolic act, of submission. |
| 27 | 1414 | And so Mirus, in having had Ellen called to the ba-ta circle, had intended not only to shame her, having her dance as a slave, but had expected her to dance badly, thus shaming herself as a woman, as well, and had then intended, in consequence of her presumed inept, blundering debacle, that she would be put under the whip, to suffer a lashing commensurate with the inadequacies of her performance. |
| 27 | 1415 | But the cruel plan of Mirus had failed of its realization! She had, it seems, done well! How frustrated, how furious, he must have been. |
| 27 | 1416 | But, too, she suspected that he had been fascinated, intrigued, by her performance, that of an attractive slave, one of whom, wisely or not, he had once ridded himself. |
| 27 | 1417 | And now, perhaps regretting his earlier haste or indiscretion, he had followed her, and with the intention, it seemed, not of killing her, as his companions so clearly seemed to have in mind, but rather of bringing her again within the ambit of his mastery. |
| 27 | 1418 | "But it seems," said the spokesman, "that things did not turn out as you expected". |