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| 18 | 133 | Such View more quotes about women">women, being properties, may be used as sureties, to be taken over by the creditors of their former masters in the case of default. |
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| 18 | 130 | For example, I had not seen a certain blonde about whom he often used in his dramatic farces, in various roles, such as that of the Golden Courtesan. |
| 18 | 131 | She, and perhaps one or two others, I did not know, were in this very building, or elsewhere, chained or caged, as a surety for the lodging fees. |
| 18 | 132 | If he wished to use one of them in some farce, or such, he would perhaps take that one, and leave another, say, Litsia, as he now called her, with the agent, or his men. |
| 18 | 133 | Such women, being properties, may be used as sureties, to be taken over by the creditors of their former masters in the case of default. |
| 18 | 134 | They are usually then sold, the proceeds from their sales, minus various fees, being used to satisfy, in so far as this is practical, the claims of the former master's creditors. |
| 18 | 135 | There are many variations on this sort of thing. |
| 18 | 136 | For example, it is not unknown for one fellow, desiring the slave of another, to advance his fellow money, perhaps for gambling, in the hope that he may not be able to pay it back, in which case the creditor, in accord with the contractual arrangements, may claim the slave. |