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| 16 | 182 | View more quotes about instantly">Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position. |
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| 16 | 179 | "Targo is coming," whispered one of the girls, she closest on the left. |
| 16 | 180 | Ellen kept her head down, pretending to be asleep. |
| 16 | 181 | "Man!" suddenly said the girl to her right. |
| 16 | 182 | Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position. |
| 16 | 183 | It was, you see, a matter of an instant response, one consequent on her training. |
| 16 | 184 | She heard the girl to her right laugh. |
| 16 | 185 | Ellen was going to break position angrily, and speak crossly to the girl, thinking herself the victim of a joke, when it occurred to her that the "Man" command might have been appropriately motivated. |