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| 17 | 19 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes they clung together, frightened, as men closed in about them, but they soon realized it was forbidden to touch them, and then several of them dared to torment the men, with the movements, the posings, the expressions, and gestures of slaves. |
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| 17 | 16 | At such times they were not chained, or even roped. |
| 17 | 17 | To where might they run? Off-duty crew members might gather about while the girls, in one group or another, were brought to the deck. |
| 17 | 18 | And much was the good-natured raillery, suggestions, observations, evaluations, hootings, whistles, jokes, gestures, and such, to which the lovely properties were subjected. |
| 17 | 19 | Sometimes they clung together, frightened, as men closed in about them, but they soon realized it was forbidden to touch them, and then several of them dared to torment the men, with the movements, the posings, the expressions, and gestures of slaves. |
| 17 | 20 | But did they not know they might be noted, and marked, well remembered by one fellow or another when, obedient to the snap of the whip, they might ascend the auction block? One fellow could not resist such provocation and seized a blond kajira, crushing her to him and raping her lips with the kiss of the master. |
| 17 | 21 | He was flogged and she put under the five-stranded slave whip. |
| 17 | 22 | He grinned under the lash but she wept, but I think, too, she would not forget that kiss. |