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| 29 | 209 | Then a desperate View more quotes about thought">thought came to her. |
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| 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. |
| 29 | 211 | "Have I been inadvertently troublesome in some way, Master?" she asked. |
| 29 | 212 | She asked this, lightly, dismissively, even flippantly. |