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| 7 | 1017 | I sat up, unhooked it, and View more quotes about slipped">slipped it over my head, putting it to the side. |
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| 7 | 1014 | She was surely more beautiful than I, but in such matters there are rightnesses which are reciprocal and subtle; it is rather like the matching together of pieces in a puzzle, the startling, unexpected fitting together of components, yielding a whole which is, in its wholeness, more precious than the individual pieces or parts could be in isolation; as beautiful and marvelous as Marla was, she was not I; it was that simple, I believe; she was not I; I, not she, I believe, was the one; I had little doubt he was my natural, perfect master; and I think, too, he had begun to fear that I might be his natural, perfect slave; surely he did not want to think of me as more than just another of his girls; yet I had little doubt that I was becoming to him, in spite of his desires, something more than just another lovely wench whose wrist was fastened on his chain. |
| 7 | 1015 | He stood beside the furs, and slipped aside his tunic. |
| 7 | 1016 | "Remove the Ta-Teera," he said to me. |
| 7 | 1017 | I sat up, unhooked it, and slipped it over my head, putting it to the side. |
| 7 | 1018 | He joined me in the furs, throwing them over us both. |
| 7 | 1019 | I could hear cries, it seemed from far off, from the circle of the torch, where the peasant boys sported cruelly with their captured beauties. |
| 7 | 1020 | Then I was in my master's arms. |