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| 22 | 178 | Yet if the View more quotes about fingers">fingers were snapped, or the hands clapped, or the gesture made, lifting the palms upward, she knew she must dance, dance as any slave, and as a slave must dance, for men. |
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| 22 | 175 | Sometimes in her cell, unobserved, she had tried to move as she had seen one or another of the dancers move, but then she had desisted, frightened, sensing what it might be, to be seen so before men. |
| 22 | 176 | And so Ellen had never danced before men. |
| 22 | 177 | She feared to do so. |
| 22 | 178 | Yet if the fingers were snapped, or the hands clapped, or the gesture made, lifting the palms upward, she knew she must dance, dance as any slave, and as a slave must dance, for men. |
| 22 | 179 | Any free man in such a camp, of course, might order her to dance, to pose, to writhe before him. |
| 22 | 180 | There was a lot number on her left breast. |
| 22 | 181 | The dancing circles were some ten or twelve feet in diameter, and sanded, and near the fires. |