| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 40 | 85 | "How could I, View more quotes about knowing">knowing what I now know, be content with something so shallow, something so meaningless, with something so tepid and absurd?" "Would you not prefer to be pridefully resistant, inert, and cool?" "It would cheat me of myself," she said. |
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| 40 | 82 | "Yes, Master," she said. |
| 40 | 83 | "Please, Master!" "Would you not prefer to be treated with the dignity and respect due to a free woman?" he asked. |
| 40 | 84 | "No longer," said she. |
| 40 | 85 | "How could I, knowing what I now know, be content with something so shallow, something so meaningless, with something so tepid and absurd?" "Would you not prefer to be pridefully resistant, inert, and cool?" "It would cheat me of myself," she said. |
| 40 | 86 | "Surely you desire to be touched, if at all, only with tentative circumspection, with solicitous temerity, with hesitant, even apologetic, reluctance?" "No," she said. |
| 40 | 87 | "I want to be handled, and mastered, and treated, and commanded, as what I am, a slave! Rope me, if you wish! Put me under your whip, if you wish!" "Surely you crave distance, delicacy, courtesy, and reserve". |
| 40 | 88 | "No!" "You are obviously desperately needful," he observed. |