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| 18 | 100 | It was not View more quotes about possible">possible there for a girl to even step outside for a breath of air as it is in most taverns. |
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| 18 | 97 | Does she not sometimes press her finger tips to her lips and then tenderly touch her finger tips to the claiming band locked snugly on her throat? She fears only that she may be sold, or given away. |
| 18 | 98 | I could not simply leave the tavern, not even in the tumult and confusion of a diversion. |
| 18 | 99 | The Chatka and Curla, you see, did not resemble most paga taverns in their openness. |
| 18 | 100 | It was not possible there for a girl to even step outside for a breath of air as it is in most taverns. |
| 18 | 101 | There are double iron gates, and only the free may come and go as they please. |
| 18 | 102 | Another deterrent to the escape of slave girls, of course, is the severity of the penalties connected with escape attempts. |
| 18 | 103 | Whereas the first penalty is commonly only a severe beating, the second one often involves hamstringing, or the cutting of the tendons behind the knees; this cripples the girl and makes her generally useless save as a pathetic example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of attempted escape. |