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| 16 | 899 | He was View more quotes about quick">quick with Ellen, perhaps because of her youth, perhaps because she had refrained from participating in this small contretemps, perhaps in his eagerness to get to the culprit on her left. |
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| 16 | 896 | "You will now, in order, shelf-girls," said the guardsman, "acknowledge your inferiority to our charges". |
| 16 | 897 | And he was not satisfied until each of the slaves on the shelf acknowledged herself inferior goods to those on his chain. |
| 16 | 898 | With the two girls who had called out derisively he was most demanding, until he had them in tears praising the beauty and value of his coffle and confessing their own comparative worthlessness, that they were unworthy to act even as the lowliest of serving slaves to such beauties, and so on. |
| 16 | 899 | He was quick with Ellen, perhaps because of her youth, perhaps because she had refrained from participating in this small contretemps, perhaps in his eagerness to get to the culprit on her left. |
| 16 | 900 | "And you," he said to her, "do you acknowledge yourself inferior to these slaves?" "Yes, Master," said Ellen, and so easily did she escape his further attention. |
| 16 | 901 | She kept her head down to the cement. |
| 16 | 902 | Too, objectively, given what she now was, collar meat, a commodity, an object for sale, she had no doubt but what it was true. |