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| 16 | 744 | "You are now only two View more quotes about women">women," I said, "each in the custody of impartial iron, each presumably destined to stand by herself on the sawdust of the slave block, each, separately, to helplessly submit to, and endure, the objective scrutiny of buyers. |
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| 16 | 741 | The woman was silent. |
| 16 | 742 | "But such things are over now," I said. |
| 16 | 743 | "Yes," whispered the woman. |
| 16 | 744 | "You are now only two women," I said, "each in the custody of impartial iron, each presumably destined to stand by herself on the sawdust of the slave block, each, separately, to helplessly submit to, and endure, the objective scrutiny of buyers. |
| 16 | 745 | There it will not matter that you are mother and daughter. |
| 16 | 746 | Probably you will not even be sold in proximity to one another, but in the order of your numbers, or in some order deemed aesthetically or commercially appropriate by professional slavers. |
| 16 | 747 | There you will be evaluated, bid upon and purchased, as different animals, as separate properties, merely as independent items up for sale, solely on your own merits. |