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| 25 | 215 | View more quotes about certainly">Certainly the men who fetched them, the sales attendants, seemed more like rude herdsmen than solicitous merchants. |
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| 25 | 212 | To be sure, some masters, perhaps aware of the latent dangers of such tendencies to laxness make it a practice to be particularly severe with beautiful slaves, and then the beauties are kept in so fierce and orderly a discipline that it requires great courage for them to do so much as lift their eyes to those of their master. |
| 25 | 213 | But I suppose that I am as beautiful as she, thought Ellen. |
| 25 | 214 | And, of course, from time to time, one lane or another was emptied, as its occupants were conducted forward, or perhaps, one should say, "herded forward," as that phrasing seems more accurate. |
| 25 | 215 | Certainly the men who fetched them, the sales attendants, seemed more like rude herdsmen than solicitous merchants. |
| 25 | 216 | They carried sticks, and it was not without jabbings, pokings and blows, and impatient expostulations, that they sped their linked, disconcerted, intimidated charges, those lovely, chained she-animals, forward, presumably to a final staging area prior to their sale. |
| 25 | 217 | Ellen was then angry with Selius Arconious. |
| 25 | 218 | She recalled how he had looked upon her, when she had knelt in the silken enclosure, when she had lifted her wrists, and had had them tied, and had then been drawn by them, tethered, to her feet, to be led to the sales area. |