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| 24 | 470 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps that is why, at least in part, she had danced as she had the first time on the sand, because she was angered at having been unexpectedly supplanted in the favored position of last dancer. |
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| 24 | 467 | Dara looked up at her, bewildered. |
| 24 | 468 | It was no longer clear to her where she stood amongst the slaves in the tent. |
| 24 | 469 | Presumably, before Ellen's addition to the list, she had been the last dancer, and thus, putatively, the best, for the best is often saved for the last. |
| 24 | 470 | Perhaps that is why, at least in part, she had danced as she had the first time on the sand, because she was angered at having been unexpectedly supplanted in the favored position of last dancer. |
| 24 | 471 | But then she had been whipped, and upon her return to the area of preparation after her second dancing, Ellen, a mere barbarian, who had seemingly supplanted her in the favored position, had spoken sharply to her, a liberty which might have been authorized, as far as she knew, by the interior whip master. |
| 24 | 472 | "Out, surely out onto the sand!" said the interior whip master to Ellen, uncertain, half in exasperation. |
| 24 | 473 | "Yes, Master!" said Ellen, and hurried out through the silk, onto the sand. |