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| 25 | 551 | I View more quotes about wonder">wonder who, of all those hundreds, made bids. |
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| 25 | 548 | I hate Mirus, she thought. |
| 25 | 549 | I hate Selius Arconious, she thought. |
| 25 | 550 | I am going to be sold! How can they sell me? I am a woman! But, ah, Ellen, she thought, you are a woman who is a slave! Thus it is that you may be sold, and thus it is fitting for you to be sold! There were twenty-one bids on me! There is thus interest in owning me, perhaps considerable interest! Hundreds must have viewed me in the exhibition cage. |
| 25 | 551 | I wonder who, of all those hundreds, made bids. |
| 25 | 552 | I do not know. |
| 25 | 553 | How could one tell? How could one be sure? The highest of those bids, whatever it might be, will be in a sense a reserve put on me, a bid below which others will not be accepted, the initial bid, that at which the bidding will begin. |
| 25 | 554 | But surely it is not likely the bidding will both begin and end there. |