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| 25 | 278 | View more quotes about tajima">Tajima, I noted, had addressed the hapless criminal as "slave," had addressed her by this lowest and most degraded of appellations, so utterly and keenly meaningful to a woman, and it was under this demeaning designation that she had unhesitantly responded, obedient to his command. |
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| 25 | 275 | Surely he knew she was not a slave! Crying out in confusion, and misery, Sumomo, obedient, bound and blindfolded, leaped from the board's edge into nothing, and plummeted downward, the skirt of her sheetlike garment torn high about her thighs, and was caught in the arms of Tajima, who threw her on her belly to the saddle apron and wheeled the tarn to the right, and upward, and, as two glaives, hurled from the platform, passed him, one below, and one to the left, spun the bird about and streaked from the stadium. |
| 25 | 276 | Consternation reigned below. |
| 25 | 277 | "Tyrtaios to the saddle!" cried the shogun. |
| 25 | 278 | Tajima, I noted, had addressed the hapless criminal as "slave," had addressed her by this lowest and most degraded of appellations, so utterly and keenly meaningful to a woman, and it was under this demeaning designation that she had unhesitantly responded, obedient to his command. |
| 25 | 279 | I smiled to myself. |
| 25 | 280 | She had obeyed under the designation, "slave". |
| 25 | 281 | She had obeyed as immediately and unquestioningly as a new purchase, entered into the domicile of her master. |