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| 15 | 171 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, sometimes the girls would be forced to compete among themselves, with small candies as prizes, and each would find herself, to her subsequent horror, striving eagerly to outdo the others, that it might be she to whom Sura would throw the sugared pellet. |
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| 15 | 168 | "I'm being trained like an animal," said Elizabeth, putting her head to my shoulder. |
| 15 | 169 | I held her head on my shoulder. |
| 15 | 170 | What she said was to a large extent true, for she was being conditioned to certain responses by pain and rewards. |
| 15 | 171 | Indeed, sometimes the girls would be forced to compete among themselves, with small candies as prizes, and each would find herself, to her subsequent horror, striving eagerly to outdo the others, that it might be she to whom Sura would throw the sugared pellet. |
| 15 | 172 | Sometimes Sura would let the men observing determine which girl should receive the pellet, that they might learn how to win men's pleasure. |
| 15 | 173 | The conditioning, of course, was subtle, as well as gross, being a combination not simply of torment and reward, but including the intended inculcation of an image and understanding of themselves as well. |
| 15 | 174 | In its most primitive expression this was begun in the first two weeks of the girls' training. |