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| 19 | 213 | He held them for a View more quotes about moment">moment and then, keeping them taut, stepped back. |
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| 19 | 210 | The crowd shouted its pleasure. |
| 19 | 211 | It was as though the sales were beginning again, and now truly for the first time. |
| 19 | 212 | The auctioneer sprang to the block and, from the darkness at the foot of the steps, was hurled a chain leash, and then two more. |
| 19 | 213 | He held them for a moment and then, keeping them taut, stepped back. |
| 19 | 214 | He met resistance. |
| 19 | 215 | Below, in the darkness, there came the sudden, startling, savage report of a slave whip, snapped three times. |
| 19 | 216 | Then, regally, in black cloaks, with hoods, three women, two girls and their leader, climbed the stairs to the block, backs straight, heads high, their features concealed in the folds of the hood. |