I concentrated on the piquant face before me. “I’d want her to be a little on the sophisticated side,” I said softly (the MEP captain had big ears). “Well-versed in the Five Books of course—and perhaps acquainted with one or two of the forbidden ones. And then I’d want her to like children and maybe be willing to have three—or even four—instead of one or none. But most of all I’d want her to be able to freeze any wrong thoughts a man might have about her, not by recourse to the law, or by saying or doing anything; but just by looking the way she does, by being the way she is—if you know what I mean.”...FROM THE BOOKS.
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