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| 19 | 130 | View more quotes about once">Once Elizabeth had told me that Sura had informed them that they would, after a time, be able to see faces from the block. |
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| 19 | 127 | I could make out, in the reflected light, the faces of those about me, and, as the moments passed, could make out more and more. |
| 19 | 128 | The girls would be, of course, keenly aware of the crowd, its moods and responses, for this is extremely important in stimulating and tantalizing it, manipulating it to increase the frequency and quality of the bids. |
| 19 | 129 | Even from the beginning Sura had trained Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, before men, that they might, from the responses of males, hasten their progress in the arts of the slave girl. |
| 19 | 130 | Once Elizabeth had told me that Sura had informed them that they would, after a time, be able to see faces from the block. |
| 19 | 131 | That was apparently important, being able to see the eyes of men, the attitude of their bodies, the movements of their shoulders. |
| 19 | 132 | There was the sudden crack of a whip, loud and sharp, and the crowd leaped to its feet, for the sale had begun. |
| 19 | 133 | A girl, wild, clad only in a brief tunic of gray toweling, as though fleeing, ran to the surface of the block, weeping, circling it, her hands outstretched to the crowd; this was done to the music of the Musicians; she turned this way and that, acting the frantic role of the fleeing slave girl. |