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| 13 | 128 | Nela had been a View more quotes about slave">slave since the age of fourteen. |
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| 13 | 125 | Harold, as a boy, had once been a slave in the baths, those of the city of Turia, before he had escaped. |
| 13 | 126 | He had told me that sometimes a Bath Girl, to discipline her, is thrown to the slaves in the darkness. |
| 13 | 127 | I held Nela a bit more closely to me, and she looked at me, puzzled. |
| 13 | 128 | Nela had been a slave since the age of fourteen. |
| 13 | 129 | To my surprise she was a native of Ar. |
| 13 | 130 | She had lived alone with her father, who had gambled heavily on the races. |
| 13 | 131 | He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liquidate as equitably as possible the unsatisfied claims of creditors. |