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| 28 | 152 | There was, as far as I View more quotes about knew">knew, nothing special for sale this evening. |
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| 28 | 149 | Men are, commonly, still entering the market at that point. |
| 28 | 150 | Often the seats are not entirely filled until the second Ahn of the sale. |
| 28 | 151 | I was a bit puzzled about the apparent speed of the sales. |
| 28 | 152 | There was, as far as I knew, nothing special for sale this evening. |
| 28 | 153 | It was, as far as I knew, a normal night at the market. |
| 28 | 154 | At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in the early market, and many men tend to come later because, normally, the least interesting girls are put up first; this often presents a merchandising dilemma but it was not one which hurt the slavers of the Curulean very much, for their merchandise tends to be generally of high quality and the reputation of their house is such that, even in the early hours of the market, they tend to have a sizable number of bidders on hand. |
| 28 | 155 | Sometimes an extraordinary girl or girls are marketed almost immediately, to encourage buyers to come early. |