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| 21 | 29 | Bera went to the View more quotes about next">next man, to fill his cup with mead, from the heavy, hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried. |
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| 21 | 26 | She, too, now, was no more than they. |
| 21 | 27 | She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she knew, as an embonded wench, that others would; it was not, indeed, until her reduction to slavery that she realized, for the first time, how fine a male, how attractive and how powerful, was Svein Blue Tooth, whom she had for years taken for granted; seeing him objectively for the first time, from the perspective of a slave girl, who is nothing herself, and comparing him with other free men, she realized suddenly how mighty, how splendid and magnificent he truly was. |
| 21 | 28 | She set herself diligently to please him, in service and in pleasure, and, if he would permit it, in love. |
| 21 | 29 | Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with mead, from the heavy, hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried. |
| 21 | 30 | She was sweating. |
| 21 | 31 | She was barefoot. |
| 21 | 32 | The bondmaid was happy. |