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| 6 | 224 | In the View more quotes about open">open-air markets, or in the outside displays, the girls, seeing me viewing them, had usually knelt, immediately, putting their heads down, exhibiting total deference and respect before a free woman. |
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| 6 | 221 | When I had seen signs or emblems of this sort I had often, as though interested in something else, requested that we take our way down that street. |
| 6 | 222 | Generally I had been able to see little or nothing, usually only the narrow, gloomy doors, often of iron, of grim, almost fortresslike buildings, but, sometimes, there would be an open-air market or some girls, as displays, would be chained outside. |
| 6 | 223 | Inside some of these buildings I had learned there were display courtyards where girls, for example, might be examined in natural light. |
| 6 | 224 | In the open-air markets, or in the outside displays, the girls, seeing me viewing them, had usually knelt, immediately, putting their heads down, exhibiting total deference and respect before a free woman. |
| 6 | 225 | Some, seeing me looking at them, had actually thrown themselves, trembling, to their bellies. |
| 6 | 226 | "They are afraid of you," Drusus Rencius had explained. |
| 6 | 227 | "Why?" I had asked. |