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| 13 | 60 | How presumptuous, how insolent, how perilous that would have been! On my View more quotes about world">world, I had occasionally, though very, very seldom, felt an inclination to kneel before a man, one man or another, to assume before him this appropriate posture of respect and submission, appropriate for a female before a male, but, of course, I had not done so. |
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| 13 | 57 | How natural it now seemed to me to kneel before a free male! It now seemed to me right that I should be so positioned. |
| 13 | 58 | Before such men I, a slave, belonged so. |
| 13 | 59 | I would have been considerably uneasy, even frightened, to be standing in his presence. |
| 13 | 60 | How presumptuous, how insolent, how perilous that would have been! On my world, I had occasionally, though very, very seldom, felt an inclination to kneel before a man, one man or another, to assume before him this appropriate posture of respect and submission, appropriate for a female before a male, but, of course, I had not done so. |
| 13 | 61 | I doubted if the men of my former world would even have understood this. |
| 13 | 62 | Perhaps, confused, stammering, embarrassed, they would have chidingly hastened me to my feet, rather than commanding me, one submitted, to minister to theirs. |
| 13 | 63 | Surely I remembered one man, one man encountered on my former world, though a man not of that world, one encountered in the aisle of a large emporium, before whom, startled, I could barely stand, and before whom I had felt I should kneel, head down, submitting myself to his survey and power, his authority, his manhood, but I had not done so. |