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| 22 | 405 | "Why would they—men, View more quotes about beasts">beasts—strip me?" It was not hard, in the darkness, to detect the curiosity, the suppressed excitement, in her voice, in that question, seemingly so appropriate, so innocent. |
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| 22 | 402 | "My freedom, my station," she said, "puts me above the risk of such indignities". |
| 22 | 403 | "I fear in that particular Mistress might be surprised," I said. |
| 22 | 404 | "But why would they do that?" she asked. |
| 22 | 405 | "Why would they—men, beasts—strip me?" It was not hard, in the darkness, to detect the curiosity, the suppressed excitement, in her voice, in that question, seemingly so appropriate, so innocent. |
| 22 | 406 | I gathered that beneath those cumbersome, ornate robes piled and cinched about her, there was a woman. |
| 22 | 407 | "May I speak," I asked. |
| 22 | 408 | I thought I now understood the fury with which she had struck me, again and again, but moments ago. |