“He was behind me. The hood was unbuckled, and lifted away. “You are not to look back,” he said. I blinked against the light, little as it was, from the lamp. I blinked, again, and shook my head, loosening my hair. It must have been two or three Ahn before dawn. The locking bands of the slave bit were then unsnapped, from behind my neck, and the device was removed from my mouth. How good it was to be rid of that effective, stern impediment, which renders a slave so helpless. How helpless a w...oman is when she cannot speak. How a girl’s slavery is impressed upon her, when she may not speak. Men do not always care to hear a woman speak, and, if she is a slave, she may be silenced, and perfectly silenced, by as little as a word, a frown. Consider the tumult within her when she desires to speak, and is not permitted to do so. She is, of course, a mere slave. How different with the free woman, who may speak if, and when, and in whatever manner she might wish. I did not speak, of course.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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