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| 8 | 407 | Had I not View more quotes about sensed">sensed the beginning of such things, even before my red-silking? Does not being barefoot, tunicked, and collared have its effect, in knowing that one, so degraded, is a slave? What was going on in my body? How was I changing? What had been done to me? I remembered the arms of the guards, so strong about me, I so weak in their grasp. |
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| 8 | 404 | Then I stood less proudly, and lowered my head. |
| 8 | 405 | Already, in the scarlet swirl of memory, rising and falling like some warm fluid, I was uneasy. |
| 8 | 406 | In my belly were clear stirrings. |
| 8 | 407 | Had I not sensed the beginning of such things, even before my red-silking? Does not being barefoot, tunicked, and collared have its effect, in knowing that one, so degraded, is a slave? What was going on in my body? How was I changing? What had been done to me? I remembered the arms of the guards, so strong about me, I so weak in their grasp. |
| 8 | 408 | And I remembered those last, brief sensations, casually bestowed on a slave, so unexpected, so different, so startling, so irresistible, which I had so wanted to have prolonged, which I had piteously begged might be continued. |
| 8 | 409 | Something within me knew, or suspected, that such things might be not only riches in themselves, exquisite and transformative, but were, as well, the promise, the hint, of something beyond them, the explosions and creations of worlds. |
| 8 | 410 | What right had I, I asked myself, to arrogate to myself the prerogatives and prides of the free woman? And the slave, I reminded myself, does not belong to herself. |