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| 29 | 207 | As a View more quotes about slave">slave she could be beaten at the master's pleasure, for any reason, or for no reason. |
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| 29 | 204 | "I do not need a reason". |
| 29 | 205 | She moaned with misery, and fought the bonds, but dared not rise from her knees. |
| 29 | 206 | It was true. |
| 29 | 207 | As a slave she could be beaten at the master's pleasure, for any reason, or for no reason. |
| 29 | 208 | She cast about, wildly, in her mind, for some way to allay his anger, to put him from his purpose, to avoid the punishment which, in her heart, she knew she deserved, and only too well. |
| 29 | 209 | Then a desperate thought came to her. |
| 29 | 210 | She looked over her shoulder, and smiled, as prettily, as innocently, as, under the circumstances, she could. |