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| 17 | 831 | The View more quotes about water">water on the shelf became warm and began to steam upward in the heat. |
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| 17 | 828 | A child splashed and was reprimanded. |
| 17 | 829 | Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or sandaled feet from dust and mud. |
| 17 | 830 | Ellen did not look at them, for she feared free women, and, as most slave girls, avoided meeting their eyes directly, lest they be thought insolent and be punished. |
| 17 | 831 | The water on the shelf became warm and began to steam upward in the heat. |
| 17 | 832 | Much then seemed to her incomprehensible. |
| 17 | 833 | How came I here, she asked herself, how thus? I am on a different world, she thought, a world foreign and strange to me, an exotic world, a beautiful, frightening world, an incredible, startling, vital world, a world so different, a world so alive, a world so very different from my own. |
| 17 | 834 | And on this world I am chained, she thought. |