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| 20 | 602 | A bit View more quotes about later">later she was placed in a small, flat-bottomed boat, on her belly, under a tarpaulin. |
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| 20 | 599 | The rope was long enough to serve as well as a leash, and, moments after she had been ordered to her feet, some yard or so of it, rising from her confined wrists, had been looped and knotted about her throat, its free end then, some five feet or so in length, serving as a leash. |
| 20 | 600 | Ellen knew that sometimes even desiderated slaves, before a submission ceremony, were put on a simple camp rope and led about, that they would better understand their condition and status, that of a domestic animal, but in her case the rope was not symbolic in nature, but effected a simple utility, constituting a device for keeping and controlling a girl. |
| 20 | 601 | Ellen, bound, was led on her leash, stumbling, wading, through the reeds. |
| 20 | 602 | A bit later she was placed in a small, flat-bottomed boat, on her belly, under a tarpaulin. |
| 20 | 603 | In the boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence. |
| 20 | 604 | Before being put on her belly in the boat, Ellen's face, she on her knees, was almost thrust into these two buckets, one after the other, filled with twisting, inching, churning leeches, that she might see them. |
| 20 | 605 | She shrank back, as she could, in terror. |