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| 25 | 708 | But even supposing such View more quotes about things">things might actually occur, which seemed so improbable, surely she had never dreamed that one day it would be she on the block, she herself, then only a branded slave, who must perform so, who must behave in such a manner. |
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| 25 | 705 | And it seemed, as far as Ellen could gather, that she was not, as the auctioneer had speculated, unfamiliar with the way in which this might be done. |
| 25 | 706 | Free women, after all, if only in virtue of hushed, furtive, scandalous rumors, would not be all that unacquainted with at least the possibility of such a thing. |
| 25 | 707 | Though they might decline to believe it. |
| 25 | 708 | But even supposing such things might actually occur, which seemed so improbable, surely she had never dreamed that one day it would be she on the block, she herself, then only a branded slave, who must perform so, who must behave in such a manner. |
| 25 | 709 | And then she found herself such. |
| 25 | 710 | How ironic, thought Ellen, how perfect! And Ellen knew that on the block there was at least one man who had a whip, and would be willing to use it, instantly, on an errant girl. |
| 25 | 711 | Perfect, thought Ellen. |