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| 4 | 23 | Many, of View more quotes about course">course, are frightened, even overcome, shamed and humiliated, at their exposure, and that, interestingly, despite their training. |
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| 4 | 20 | For most, I would suppose, as well, the first sale is the most difficult. |
| 4 | 21 | This is not always the case, of course, for much can depend on the house, the auctioneer, the market, the mood of the buyers, and such. |
| 4 | 22 | If it is learned that a given item was once a free woman of an enemy city, even a third or fourth sale may be terrifying. |
| 4 | 23 | Many, of course, are frightened, even overcome, shamed and humiliated, at their exposure, and that, interestingly, despite their training. |
| 4 | 24 | What would they expect? Who would buy a clothed slave? Perhaps they did not expect the thing to be done so blatantly; perhaps they did not expect to be handled, and presented, in the way they are. |
| 4 | 25 | Perhaps, too, it has to do with the whole of the thing, its reality, its newness, the sensations, the torchlight, the auctioneer, the cries of the men, the bidding. |
| 4 | 26 | Some of the items seem numb, almost in shock. |