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| 41 | 213 | View more quotes about might">Might not the hem of a robe brush a foot? One might even loosen a sandal strap, and request its adjustment, that one need not bend down or go to one's knee in public, unthinkable for a free woman. |
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| 41 | 210 | It was permissible; there was already a collar on my neck! In the cities, I had heard that even tree women sometimes knelt before a given male, and begged his collar. |
| 41 | 211 | Even free, they were women; and how much more a woman they would be in a collar! I recalled that long ago, on my former world, that I had felt the desire to throw myself to my knees before him, but I had turned, and fled away, in consternation. |
| 41 | 212 | Had I been a free woman it would have been easy enough to call myself to their attention. |
| 41 | 213 | Might not the hem of a robe brush a foot? One might even loosen a sandal strap, and request its adjustment, that one need not bend down or go to one's knee in public, unthinkable for a free woman. |
| 41 | 214 | One might even, in seeming to stumble, kick dirt upon one in passing, an accident pertaining to which a free woman might legitimately express regret, or even, less pleasantly, trip against them, and then execrate them for being in one's way, or such. |
| 41 | 215 | Doubtless there are thousands of ways in which a woman may call herself to the attention of a man, even if one is an exalted free woman. |
| 41 | 216 | After all, beneath all their veils and robes, they, too, are women. |