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| 24 | 673 | The block View more quotes about tends">tends to be illuminated and the house is much in darkness. |
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| 24 | 670 | She is not there to be sold to the man of her choice but to the highest bidder. |
| 24 | 671 | Indeed, in most public auctions, such actions on the part of the girl are for most practical purposes impossible. |
| 24 | 672 | Such auctions are usually held at night, when men are off work, and can come to the biddings, under torches. |
| 24 | 673 | The block tends to be illuminated and the house is much in darkness. |
| 24 | 674 | The girl, naked, in the light, exhibited, can be well seen, but she herself can see few of the buyers. |
| 24 | 675 | She is intensely aware, of course, of their presence, in the crowds, in the tiers. |
| 24 | 676 | Their sounds, their cries, their breathing, their movements, the sweat, the smells, their interest, are clearly evident to her, almost engulfing her on the block, almost like possessive hands upon her body. |