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| 25 | 596 | What the View more quotes about auctioneer">auctioneer had said about the slave's sexual experience tallied, of course, with what she had told Ellen, in their earlier conversation. |
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| 25 | 593 | The test in her case, of course, doubtless to her chagrin, shame and embarrassment, would have had a negative outcome. |
| 25 | 594 | Ellen could then imagine her hysterically defending her respectability, that she had had such an experience but once, had not found it satisfying, muchly regretted it, had found it disgusting, and so on, the usual defenses of frigidity in a free woman. |
| 25 | 595 | Wait until you feel slave heat, and crawl to a man, begging, thought Ellen. |
| 25 | 596 | What the auctioneer had said about the slave's sexual experience tallied, of course, with what she had told Ellen, in their earlier conversation. |
| 25 | 597 | And Ellen did not doubt but what it was true. |
| 25 | 598 | Indeed, why otherwise would the slave, when a free woman, have come alone to the festival camp, if she had not, on a profound subconscious level, scarcely understanding her own action, been seeking more, a more which she was sure must exist. |
| 25 | 599 | "Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her as a slave is opened! Twenty-five! Consider this luscious slave! Look upon her! See her, there! She can be first opened as a slave but once! Be he who first opens her as a slave! Be the first to enjoy her as a slave! Twenty-eight! Thirty! Thirty-five!" But then, to Ellen's trepidation, and shock, the former free woman herself called out to the crowd. |