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| 25 | 61 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes, too, amusingly, one of these women, intended for a given house, finds that house outbid, and finds herself wagoned away to another house, perhaps out of the city. |
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| 25 | 58 | Is not the beautiful woman, curled at one's feet, avid to learn the secrets of a house, petulant and pouting if denied, ideally suited to gather the flowers of intelligence? Is it not a natural, and simple, and innocent thing to purchase one of their smiles, at so small a cost as an expression, an unimportant, dropped word, which must, in any case, be meaningless to them? Some did not realize that as soon as they were branded and collared they were truly slaves, and others, doubtless, expected to be freed. |
| 25 | 59 | They would not be freed, of course, none of them, for their slavery was intended by their employers from the beginning. |
| 25 | 60 | Is it not a fit recompense for their treachery? Let them stay then in their collars, and, bound at a punishment ring, absorb the lessons of the whip, informing them as to the reality of their condition and the nature of their future. |
| 25 | 61 | Sometimes, too, amusingly, one of these women, intended for a given house, finds that house outbid, and finds herself wagoned away to another house, perhaps out of the city. |
| 25 | 62 | Her lamentations and protests, too, soon cease beneath the whip. |
| 25 | 63 | She learns, too, she is then a true slave, and discovers she is perhaps a thousand pasangs from the house of her intended destination. |
| 25 | 64 | To her horror, she soon realizes, too, that her recruiters will not attempt to reclaim her, for that might draw attention to themselves and their intentions. |