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| 50 | 34 | Does she not, View more quotes about eagerly">eagerly and piteously, driven by her aroused needs, as before, crawl to his slave ring, soliciting his least touch? Even were he a cruel and hated master, even of an enemy city, she could not help but behave so. |
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| 50 | 31 | She redoubles her efforts to be his humble, pleasing slave. |
| 50 | 32 | Surely she strives to be acceptable to him, and wholly, as she must, and desires, in the way of the slave. |
| 50 | 33 | And of course there is no diminishment in her slave fires. |
| 50 | 34 | Does she not, eagerly and piteously, driven by her aroused needs, as before, crawl to his slave ring, soliciting his least touch? Even were he a cruel and hated master, even of an enemy city, she could not help but behave so. |
| 50 | 35 | Men had seen to it. |
| 50 | 36 | But, now, even well away from the slave ring, when he returns from his labors and she welcomes him, kneeling, looking up at him, to his domicile, when she serves his supper or wine, when he observes her polishing his leather, when he orders her to light the lamp of love, has there not been something different about him, perhaps a slightly different light in his eyes? So she suspects now, as she moves before him, subtly provoking his desire, as though unintentionally, as before, as the slave she is, as she serves, that he may have begun to care for her, despite the fact that she is only a submitted, vanquished property, a slave. |
| 50 | 37 | It is one thing, of course, in all of this, for a slave, scarcely daring to hope, grateful and rejoicing, to understand, to suspect, how she may have now come to be regarded by her master, and quite another to speak of it. |