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| 25 | 45 | * * * * View more quotes about ellen">Ellen had knelt in the tiny cage, confined there, grasping the bars, waiting. |
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| 25 | 42 | "Take them to the ready area," he said. |
| 25 | 43 | The lead girl, whom Ellen understood to be 115, was then put in leading position, bent over, a hand in her hair, and, as she whimpered, she was conducted from the area, amongst various cages, shelters, tents and stakes, toward distant sounds of men, shouts and calls, and the rest of the chain followed. |
| 25 | 44 | Ellen was pleased she was not lead girl. |
| 25 | 45 | * * * * Ellen had knelt in the tiny cage, confined there, grasping the bars, waiting. |
| 25 | 46 | Every muscle in her body had seemed to ache. |
| 25 | 47 | The cage was of the sort commonly used for a disciplinary device, one in which an errant slave might be incarcerated pending the subsidence of a master's ire. |
| 25 | 48 | In such a device her contrition quickly becomes authentic, her lessons are learned and her ways mended. |