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| 8 | 500 | And, startlingly, for the View more quotes about first">first time in my life, I, too, now undeniably, began to find them attractive, deeply and sensuously attractive, even excitingly so. |
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| 8 | 497 | Though barefoot, though thonged by the throat, though branded, though clad in a camisk, though a degraded slave, at the mercy of men, I felt, perhaps for the first time in my life, paradoxically, vitally and joyously happy. |
| 8 | 498 | I now thought more often of men. |
| 8 | 499 | I knew now that they found me attractive. |
| 8 | 500 | And, startlingly, for the first time in my life, I, too, now undeniably, began to find them attractive, deeply and sensuously attractive, even excitingly so. |
| 8 | 501 | One would carry his head in a certain way; another laughed well, openly, heartedly; another had sturdy legs; another had long, fine arms and strong hands, a fine chest and head. |
| 8 | 502 | I found I wanted to look upon them, to stand near them, as if by accident, to touch them, as if inadvertently, perhaps in brushing past them. |
| 8 | 503 | Sometimes they would discover me looking upon them, and I, responding to their grin, would look down, swiftly, shyly. |