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There her appearance and deportment is usually, and wisely, transformed. It would be a very foolish slave who would carry herself before a free woman as she is expected to carry herself before free men. Before the scrutiny of the free woman she is likely to lapse from joyful beauty to cringing scullion. She will not meet the eyes of the free woman; she is scarcely likely to leave her knees or lift her head; her body is bent and seems smaller; she seems to wilt and tremble; she tries to draw down the hem of her tunic; she grasps the edges of her tunic and tries to draw them closed, to conceal better the delights of her bosom; she is likely to whisper; her voice is uncertain, and scarcely audible. These are not inauthentic dissemblings; they are a real witness to the slave's terror of the authority and power of the free woman. What could a man see of interest, the free woman might ask herself, in such a frightened, confused, groveling drab? But, of course, too, the free woman is well aware of the appearance and demeanor of the slave when she is not accosted by them, or brought within the immediate ambit of their power. She is well aware that the girl before her, in another environment, is likely to be the subject of songs of lust and love, and the object of determined men who want her on their chain. - (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter )