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| 4 | 787 | I trembled. |
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| 4 | 784 | The moonlight streamed View more quotes about down">down on the branded slave girl before her master. |
| 4 | 785 | He held the blanket, looking down at it. |
| 4 | 786 | Then he looked at me. |
| 4 | 787 | I trembled. |
| 4 | 788 | I knew a girl was to be punished. |
| 4 | 789 | He lifted the blanket. |
| 4 | 790 | In that instant I felt suffused with joy for I felt then that he would, in his kindness, cover me, protecting me from the eyes of his men; perhaps, too, he had been moved by my plight; perhaps he was now sorry for how cruelly he had treated me; perhaps now he would try to make amends; perhaps now I had stirred pity and compassion in his harsh breast; perhaps, too, he was moved now by my love for him and, overwhelmed with gratitude, and tenderness, at the value and immensity of this gift, might be moved to regard me, too, with affection, with love, in turn. |