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| 25 | 102 | But the buyers, View more quotes about clearly">clearly, had a greater interest in several of the items marketed than the Cosians, in effect, wholesalers, had anticipated. |
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| 25 | 99 | The average sale took only two or three Ehn. |
| 25 | 100 | But it was rumored, nonetheless, that the next day's sales, the third day's sales, would begin in the early afternoon, to ensure the disposal of all the merchandise. |
| 25 | 101 | The Cosians, it seemed, had not anticipated that there would be intense, competitive bidding on so many girls. |
| 25 | 102 | But the buyers, clearly, had a greater interest in several of the items marketed than the Cosians, in effect, wholesalers, had anticipated. |
| 25 | 103 | There were many professional slavers in attendance, of course. |
| 25 | 104 | They, clearly, on the whole, were interested in picking up cheap girls for training and subsequent resale, the first buys in the festival camp being understood largely as speculations or investments. |
| 25 | 105 | Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block some two yards in height and twenty feet in diameter with broad, flat steps on each side, by means of which merchandise might be brought conveniently to its surface and, subsequently, with similar ease, taken from it. |