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| 28 | 177 | Then, after the View more quotes about first">first twenty girls, when our nerves were keen and taut, we were separated into coffles of ten. |
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| 28 | 174 | Each time we had moved one or two positions on the bench we knew that one or two of our sisters had been sold. |
| 28 | 175 | The psychological effect of this, methodical and relentless, tends to produce anticipation and anxiety, even in an experienced girl. |
| 28 | 176 | No girl ever grows completely used to being exhibited and sold. |
| 28 | 177 | Then, after the first twenty girls, when our nerves were keen and taut, we were separated into coffles of ten. |
| 28 | 178 | We might then seem to relax. |
| 28 | 179 | But when our nerves had eased and we might seem to breathe a bit more easily, the coffle, as a whole, would be ordered to its feet and moved ten spaces toward the end of the tunnel. |
| 28 | 180 | The effect of this, being for a time relatively at ease, and then being forced suddenly to move ten times closer to the block tends, suddenly, to whet one's fears and anticipations anew; when one, psychologically, in spite of herself, had begun to feel a little safe one is suddenly hurried even closer to her exhibition and sale, and all it means, the uncertainty, the danger, the not knowing, the being sold, the being owned anew, by someone who can do with you what he pleases. |