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| 23 | 254 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes, indeed, a girl would single out a desirable male in the crowd and signal to him in no uncertain manner that she begs to wear his collar, and that she wants only the opportunity to become for him a dream of love and pleasure. |
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| 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. |
| 23 | 253 | But even without special attentions the behavior of women at prows varied considerably, from such things as free women hysterically writhing and screaming in their bonds to saucy slave girls exchanging quips with the crowd. |
| 23 | 254 | Sometimes, indeed, a girl would single out a desirable male in the crowd and signal to him in no uncertain manner that she begs to wear his collar, and that she wants only the opportunity to become for him a dream of love and pleasure. |
| 23 | 255 | "And may Claudia inquire as to what behaviors may be required of herself and Publia?" she asked. |
| 23 | 256 | "I do not know what the captain will decide," he said. |
| 23 | 257 | "I suppose that perhaps, as you are slaves, but new slaves, it might be required that you adopt an attitude of apprehensive ambiguity, of informed trepidation, of fearful uncertainty, as you have some concept of what it is to be a slave, and are being carried into a new bondage". |