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| 20 | 127 | For that View more quotes about reason">reason, even in the absence of discipline, slavers sometimes pierce a girl's ears, to her misery and horror, before putting her on the block, a pierced-ear girl. |
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| 20 | 124 | She is special on a chain. |
| 20 | 125 | Much may be expected of her. |
| 20 | 126 | Pierced ears, too, tend to improve a girl's price. |
| 20 | 127 | For that reason, even in the absence of discipline, slavers sometimes pierce a girl's ears, to her misery and horror, before putting her on the block, a pierced-ear girl. |
| 20 | 128 | "And if," said Alcinoë, "the woman was free, and even of high caste, I would have arranged for her to be in a collar by nightfall, and, chained, hurried from the city, to some mean and distant market, from which, after piercing her ears, she would be sold for a pittance". |
| 20 | 129 | Yes, I thought to myself, the former lady Flavia of Ar herself would look quite well in earrings. |
| 20 | 130 | Is it not the ultimate degradation of a female slave? "But," I said, "you are not the Lady Flavia of Ar". |