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| 6 | 291 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps her fault lay in her diction or in some subtle lapse of deference. |
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| 6 | 288 | Some slave, I gathered, had failed to be fully pleasing. |
| 6 | 289 | Perhaps she had spoken without permission; perhaps she had uttered a tart word; perhaps she had seemed the least bit cross, impatient, or critical; perhaps she had been hesitant to obey or, demurring, had questioned a command. |
| 6 | 290 | Perhaps her manner had suggested something of the haughtiness of the free woman. |
| 6 | 291 | Perhaps her fault lay in her diction or in some subtle lapse of deference. |
| 6 | 292 | I heard the lash fall, six times more. |
| 6 | 293 | Perhaps she had dared to put on airs. |
| 6 | 294 | I supposed that she was now well reminded that she was a slave, not a free woman. |