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| 15 | 1291 | How View more quotes about pleased">pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery, a proud girl, determined to be defiant, a raw, red-silk slave, mad with the need for a master's touch. |
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| 15 | 1288 | I would make them suffer! I was white silk! It was safe to dance before them as I pleased. |
| 15 | 1289 | And so Elinor Brinton danced to torment them. |
| 15 | 1290 | They cried out with anguish and pleasure. |
| 15 | 1291 | How pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery, a proud girl, determined to be defiant, a raw, red-silk slave, mad with the need for a master's touch. |
| 15 | 1292 | And, too, as I danced, I would sometimes dance toward a warrior, sometimes as though begging him his glance, sometimes as though seeking his protection in my plight, sometimes as though I could not help myself, but was drawn to him, helplessly, in the vulnerability of the female slave, sometimes, when I chose, to deliberately, overtly and cruelly, taunt him with my beauty, my desirability, and my inaccessibility. |
| 15 | 1293 | More than one cried out with rage and reached toward me, or shook his fist at me, but I laughed, and danced back away from him. |
| 15 | 1294 | Then, as the music struck towards its swirling peaks I unaccountably, boldly, for no reason I understood, faced Rask of Treve, and before him, my master, I danced. |