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| 20 | 274 | Too, for View more quotes about whatever">whatever reason, I was reluctant to leave the vicinity of the brute I so hated, Desmond of Harfax, he who had treated me so badly, who held me in such contempt, who had so scorned me. |
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| 20 | 271 | Men like to own us, and have us in collars. |
| 20 | 272 | Too, one did not care to be hamstrung, fed to sleen, or cast to leech plants. |
| 20 | 273 | We were aware of all these things. |
| 20 | 274 | Too, for whatever reason, I was reluctant to leave the vicinity of the brute I so hated, Desmond of Harfax, he who had treated me so badly, who held me in such contempt, who had so scorned me. |
| 20 | 275 | Perhaps my lips had been bred to be pressed to the leather of his whip. |
| 20 | 276 | Might I not belong in his slave bracelets? Might he not be my master? But aside from all these things, I think, rather, primarily, and more profoundly, the reason we would not run away was quite simple, that we were now quite other than we had once been; we now well knew what we had become, and were. |
| 20 | 277 | We now clearly understood, in every fiber of our bodies, in the bottom of our bellies and in the depths of our hearts, that we were no longer those cultural artifices which are called free women, but now something quite different, something more natural, more ancient, more biological, that we were now belongings and properties, that we were now slaves. |