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| 27 | 3295 | In the View more quotes about house">house of Mirus, in Ar, of course, as a part of her training, all this had changed. |
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| 27 | 3292 | To be sure, in her ideological pride and her sense of political propriety, she had made it a point to learn little or nothing of cooking on Earth, feeling such a homely task, and one so often associated with women, was wholly inappropriate for her, a female intellectual. |
| 27 | 3293 | Indeed, she would have felt embarrassed to have such skills. |
| 27 | 3294 | They were not only beneath her, but would have been insulting, demeaning, to one such as she. |
| 27 | 3295 | In the house of Mirus, in Ar, of course, as a part of her training, all this had changed. |
| 27 | 3296 | There she had become desperately zealous, often naked, on her knees, in the shadow of a switch or whip, to master a battery of domestic skills, cooking amongst them, skills expected of a female slave. |
| 27 | 3297 | And, as time went on, she became aware that these tasks were not as menial and simple as she had conjectured, but that genuine skill was needed, and attention, to turn out a delectable sauce, to make small, fine stitches, to press a tunic with fire-heated irons so well that one would not feel the switches of the instructrices, and so on. |
| 27 | 3298 | In time, as her skills increased, and the sting of the switch became less frequent, she began to take pride in her performance of such tasks, those expected of a female slave. |