| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 54 | The piercing of the ears, however, is View more quotes about regarded">regarded as being the epitome of a slave girl's degradation. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 51 | Ear piercing, from this time, had begun to spread rapidly through the north, masters, and slavers, often inflicting it on their girls. |
| 8 | 52 | Interestingly, the piercing of the septum, for the insertion of a nose ring, is regarded, generally, a great deal more lightly by female slaves than the piercing of the ears. |
| 8 | 53 | Perhaps this is partly because, in the far south, the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings; perhaps it is because the piercing does not show; I do not know. |
| 8 | 54 | The piercing of the ears, however, is regarded as being the epitome of a slave girl's degradation. |
| 8 | 55 | Any woman, it is said, with pierced ears, is a slave girl. |
| 8 | 56 | "You insult me," said Hilda the Haughty, "to present me with such miserable merchandise! Is this the best that great Ar can offer?" Had I been of Ar I might have been angry. |
| 8 | 57 | As it was I was somewhat irritated. |