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| 19 | 195 | The View more quotes about auctioneer">auctioneer, as though in the throes of misery, almost threw the poor girl back down the stairs of the block, kicking her bit of dark blanket angrily after her. |
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| 19 | 192 | There were jeers and cries. |
| 19 | 193 | Yet when he persisted, there were some token offers, perhaps by men who wished to obtain a kettle girl for next to nothing; I was not surprised to note that each time a legitimate offer was made, though small, it was topped slightly by a fellow in the robes of the Metal Workers, whom I knew to be a guard in the house of Cernus; at last, this agent of Cernus had purchased her back for the House for only seventeen copper tarn disks. |
| 19 | 194 | I knew later, perhaps in another city, she would be well presented and would bring a good price. |
| 19 | 195 | The auctioneer, as though in the throes of misery, almost threw the poor girl back down the stairs of the block, kicking her bit of dark blanket angrily after her. |
| 19 | 196 | He glared up at the crowd. |
| 19 | 197 | "I told you!" he cried. |
| 19 | 198 | "Barbarians are nothing!" The auctioneer conferred with a market official, who kept lists of lot numbers and confirmed the bids and final sale with the buyers or their agents at the side of the block. |