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| 2 | 7 | The View more quotes about auctioneer">auctioneer did not strike her with his whip. |
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| 2 | 4 | The men in the crowd regarded her, curiously. |
| 2 | 5 | Had she never been sold before? She tried to turn away, and cover herself, her feet in the damp sawdust. |
| 2 | 6 | The inside of her left thigh was stained yellow, as she had lost water in her terror. |
| 2 | 7 | The auctioneer did not strike her with his whip. |
| 2 | 8 | He merely took her arms and lifted them, so that the position chain, attached to each side of the sales collar, lay across her upper arms. |
| 2 | 9 | Then he had her clasp her hands behind the back of her neck, so that the chain, on each side of the collar, was in the crook of her arms, and she was exposed in such a way that she could be properly exhibited. |
| 2 | 10 | In a higher-class market girls are usually fed a cathartic a few hours before the sale, and forced to relieve themselves shortly before their sale, a kettle passed down the line. |