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| 11 | 65 | She laid the switch, cool and View more quotes about green">green, across the tendons. |
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| 11 | 62 | The girls on her left and right knelt, frightened, heads low, collar chains taut, looking at her. |
| 11 | 63 | Ginger went to the girl and thrust up the tunic. |
| 11 | 64 | "See these tendons," she asked, "at the back of each knee?" "Yes, Mistress," said more than one girl. |
| 11 | 65 | She laid the switch, cool and green, across the tendons. |
| 11 | 66 | The Swedish girl shuddered. |
| 11 | 67 | "It is a common punishment for a runaway girl," said Ginger, "that these tendons are severed. |
| 11 | 68 | The girl, then, can never stand again, but must, if she is permitted to live, drag herself about by her hands. |