Mistress Arabella madam summons her lazy slave to her feet
as she relaxes at home on her sofa:
‘Slave! Come here and straighten my sock!’
She could, of course, simply reach over to straighten her
wonky sock herself. But she’s not the lazy one, and she has the slave to perform
such trivial tasks for her in any case.
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| ‘Slave... straighten my sock!’ |
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| Ms Arabella madam is not the lazy one in this scene |
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| She has every right to order her slave to perform such a trivial task for her. She owns him! |
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| Her cigarette. Ms Arabella madam is a prolific smoker! So you could argue that her hands are full! |
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| As are, now, the slave's - full of SOCK! |
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| Note, however, how gingerly he touches his lovely mistress's short SOCK |
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| He knows his knobbly old fingers must NOT touch her bare ankleskin above the SOCK! |
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| Her skin is too precious for the likes of lowly him to touch! |
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| His jurisdiction begins and ends with her SHOES and SOCKS! |
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| Even the tiny blemish on her outer anklebone is beyond his humble reach! |
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| His mistress has ordered him to touch her SOCK. Not her bare ankle flesh! |
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| He must not, therefore, allow his lowly fingers to stray above the SOCK! Haha, what a pathetic creature he is! |
