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| 38 | 155 | What could her View more quotes about sisters">sisters do, after all, if what was returned to them was, at that time, little better than a needful female slave? She would still be legally free, and that would suffice for the justification of the ransom's collection, a ransom measured, interestingly enough, to a rate appropriate to a free female. |
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| 38 | 152 | She was the girl, Ilene. |
| 38 | 153 | She had learned much in the cage. |
| 38 | 154 | The pit master had decided that it would not harm her, to spoil her for freedom. |
| 38 | 155 | What could her sisters do, after all, if what was returned to them was, at that time, little better than a needful female slave? She would still be legally free, and that would suffice for the justification of the ransom's collection, a ransom measured, interestingly enough, to a rate appropriate to a free female. |
| 38 | 156 | What did it matter if, returned to her house, she might writhe and squirm in tears in her bed, striking her pillows in need? I think she now feared only that the ransom might be paid. |
| 38 | 157 | I myself was not certain that her fears were justified. |
| 38 | 158 | I had gathered that her sisters might be loath to pay and, also, now having tasted the wealth and power of the house, might be unwilling to do so. |