| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 647 | It was not my fault! I was View more quotes about perhaps">perhaps beautiful, but beauty availed nothing when one felt the weight of the plow at one's back and knew that behind you the master was lifting his whip. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 644 | It was not my fault. |
| 9 | 645 | I was small, and slight and weak. |
| 9 | 646 | I could not help that. |
| 9 | 647 | It was not my fault! I was perhaps beautiful, but beauty availed nothing when one felt the weight of the plow at one's back and knew that behind you the master was lifting his whip. |
| 9 | 648 | Thurnus was disappointed in my weakness. |
| 9 | 649 | I chopped down angrily at the ground with the hoe. |
| 9 | 650 | It was hard for me even to carry water to the fields, struggling under the great wooden yoke over my shoulders, with its attached buckets. |