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| 25 | 184 | But then, upon reflection, in the context of her abduction, the smoothness, View more quotes about care">care and efficiency with which it was conducted, and given the predations of slavers upon Earth, and their access to techniques and vehicles capable of at least interplanetary spacefaring, and the market for such as she on this world, then, in this larger context, her situation did not seem so untoward or inexplicable at all. |
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| 25 | 181 | But that is fitting for us, that we should be absolutely helpless, for we are slaves". |
| 25 | 182 | There was the sound of a gong, which signified that another sale had been concluded. |
| 25 | 183 | "How strange it suddenly seems to me," thought Ellen, "that I, an Earth woman, should be here, on this world, with these others, waiting to be sold". |
| 25 | 184 | But then, upon reflection, in the context of her abduction, the smoothness, care and efficiency with which it was conducted, and given the predations of slavers upon Earth, and their access to techniques and vehicles capable of at least interplanetary spacefaring, and the market for such as she on this world, then, in this larger context, her situation did not seem so untoward or inexplicable at all. |
| 25 | 185 | Its hue of strangeness was no more than an illusion, a distortion, perceived through a prism of ignorance. |
| 25 | 186 | To a native glass beads may appear strange. |
| 25 | 187 | And she had no doubt but what had happened to her had happened to a great many of her former world. |