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| 79 | 193 | She was to have been, as a View more quotes about free">free woman, a challenge to his honor, the means by which, sooner or later, it must be inevitably lost, but now there was no longer a need to concern oneself with such things, for now, as a slave, she was as open to him or to any other who might own her, as any other slave. |
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| 79 | 190 | If she was an almost irresistible temptation for any male, what must she be then to him, he for whom she, unbeknownst to herself, had been selected, readied, and prepared? Cabot wondered if in a sense she had not, unbeknownst to herself, been bred for him. |
| 79 | 191 | Too, clearly she was a slave, to those who could remark such things, the sort of woman to be seized by the hair, thrown to a fellow's feet, stripped, and collared. |
| 79 | 192 | And, too, of course, the matching, to be most successful, would presumably be one of designed reciprocation, not only she to him, but he to her. |
| 79 | 193 | She was to have been, as a free woman, a challenge to his honor, the means by which, sooner or later, it must be inevitably lost, but now there was no longer a need to concern oneself with such things, for now, as a slave, she was as open to him or to any other who might own her, as any other slave. |
| 79 | 194 | He watched her serving, and he supposed that many of the young men she had so belittled and tormented, led on and then frustrated, for her vanity and amusement, would have enjoyed sitting with others at that feast, seeing her serve with others, as what she was, a slave. |
| 79 | 195 | Perhaps, too, they would have enjoyed seeing her at the post, earlier in the afternoon, being punished for having been displeasing. |
| 79 | 196 | After only the second stroke she had gone to her belly. |