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| 8 | 295 | And View more quotes about masters">masters, I knew, tended to take little notice of the altercations, or squabbles, of slaves. |
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| 8 | 292 | I was smaller, weaker, more delicate, sensitive. |
| 8 | 293 | I was afraid of them, and I did not think they would care much for me. |
| 8 | 294 | I did not doubt but what they would be cruel to me. |
| 8 | 295 | And masters, I knew, tended to take little notice of the altercations, or squabbles, of slaves. |
| 8 | 296 | And I did not want to be locked up at night, with those other slaves, at their mercy, in a more-than-half-sunken, barred kennel. |
| 8 | 297 | That is not like lying lovingly in an ankle ring, or collar, at the foot of a beloved master's couch. |
| 8 | 298 | And what could one hope for? Perhaps at best to be slept at night in a hut, shackled, hand and foot, on a coarse mat? Surely I did not belong in a peasant village! I was not that sort of slave! Surely I was more the sort who should be an urban slave, lovely in a silken tunic, attracting the attention of strangers in the streets, one perhaps even permitted sandals. |