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| 8 | 412 | "View more quotes about splendid">Splendid," said Drusus Rencius. |
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| 8 | 409 | She was a slave. |
| 8 | 410 | * * * * "As the house opens to the public at the tenth Ahn," said Hermidorus, "perhaps I should now take you to the office of Publius, who wished to greet you before you left the premises". |
| 8 | 411 | The tenth Ahn is the Gorean noon. |
| 8 | 412 | "Splendid," said Drusus Rencius. |
| 8 | 413 | We were then making our way upward from some of the lower pen areas. |
| 8 | 414 | I had not realized the complexities of a slaver's house, and this house, while large, was not an unusually large one. |
| 8 | 415 | We had seen the baths and the sales yard, which is also used for exercise; we had seen various holding areas, ranging from silken, barred alcoves for superb pleasure slaves, through cells and cages, and such, of various sorts more fit for medium-priced women, to incarceration chambers that were little more than grated pits or gloomy dungeons, areas in which a slave might be terrorized to find herself placed; other holding areas, ranging from good to bad, were no more than a ring position, in a wall or on a floor; we also saw kitchens, pantries, eating areas, some with mere troughs or depressions in the floor, storage areas, guard rooms, offices, and places for the keeping of records; there were also a laundry and an infirmary; too, there were rooms where such subjects as the care and dressing of hair, the application of cosmetics, the selection and use of perfumes, manicure and pedicure, and slave costuming were taught, and even rooms where inept women, usually former members of the upper castes, could be instructed in the small domestic tasks that would now be expected of them, small services suitable for slaves, such as cleaning, cooking and sewing. |