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| 29 | 155 | Could we be View more quotes about sure">sure of overcoming all bids? Might there not be others who, for similar reasons, for similar grievances, might be as anxious as we to obtain her? And what if she misbehaved in the house of the slaver and was, say, cut to pieces, and never even came to the block? But more than these fears, I think, was the pleasure, the gratification, which would be felt in our house by our having been your actual ransomer. |
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| 29 | 152 | What if she had been simply fed to sleen? But, we had heard rumors that her body might not be without interest, and so we speculated that her captors might see fit to save her for the collar. |
| 29 | 153 | But would we know where she would be sold? Perhaps not. |
| 29 | 154 | And auctions are such tricky things. |
| 29 | 155 | Could we be sure of overcoming all bids? Might there not be others who, for similar reasons, for similar grievances, might be as anxious as we to obtain her? And what if she misbehaved in the house of the slaver and was, say, cut to pieces, and never even came to the block? But more than these fears, I think, was the pleasure, the gratification, which would be felt in our house by our having been your actual ransomer. |
| 29 | 156 | I think you can understand what an excellent and fitting thing this was. |
| 29 | 157 | And so she came into our hands, deliciously, as a free woman. |
| 29 | 158 | And what, then, was to be done with her? We had feared, you might recall, that she might find herself enslaved, but our fear, most particularly, most exactly, was that she would find herself enslaved by the will and act of another—and not by our will and act, not by the will and act of the house of William, in Harfax. |