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| 23 | 249 | Still, it was an intriguing idea, instructing them in the View more quotes about behavior">behavior they were to exhibit at the prow. |
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| 23 | 246 | Usually, as far as I knew, the placing of women at the prow was not attended by such considerations. |
| 23 | 247 | For example, when I had put women at my own prow, from time to time, I had usually let them behave or appear in any fashion they pleased. |
| 23 | 248 | It was enough for me, and, I suppose, for them, that they were at the prow, displayed and helpless. |
| 23 | 249 | Still, it was an intriguing idea, instructing them in the behavior they were to exhibit at the prow. |
| 23 | 250 | In such a manner one might, rather as if decorating the ship in a certain way, say, with bunting and garlands, exercise more control over the impression one created in entering the harbor. |
| 23 | 251 | Too, of course, one might by such a device ready the crowds for bidding on a certain female, raise up her price, and so on. |
| 23 | 252 | Certainly it was no secret that slavers, particularly in the more expensive houses, occasionally planned the sale of women in great detail, carefully regulating the order, arrangement, style, pacing and presentation of the goods, sometimes, in effect, even choreographing or staging the sale. |