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| 19 | 249 | View more quotes about cernus">Cernus leaned over the arm of his chair, toward me. |
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| 19 | 246 | "What of thirty?" called the auctioneer. |
| 19 | 247 | "Forty!" I heard cry. |
| 19 | 248 | The auctioneer laughed and approached the third girl. |
| 19 | 249 | Cernus leaned over the arm of his chair, toward me. |
| 19 | 250 | "I wonder," he said, "how she will feel when she learns she has been truly sold?" "Put a sword in my hand," said I, "and face me!" Cernus laughed and turned his attention again to the block. |
| 19 | 251 | As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on the block. |
| 19 | 252 | The whip slave who held her chain then hauled her cruelly, on her stomach, and then on her back, to the center of the block. |