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| 22 | 408 | I View more quotes about thought">thought I now understood the fury with which she had struck me, again and again, but moments ago. |
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| 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. |
| 22 | 409 | I had touched in her, however innocently or inadvertently, something in her with which she was familiar, something which terrified her. |
| 22 | 410 | "Certainly," she said. |
| 22 | 411 | "They would strip you, Mistress," I said, "—to see if you were pleasing". |