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| 16 | 398 | There was laughter from the other View more quotes about girls">girls on the shelf. |
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| 16 | 395 | If a brand is found the woman will be stripped and bound by the free women, switched liberally, for there is little love lost between free women and slaves, and then turned over to magistrates, to be returned to the mercies of her master. |
| 16 | 396 | "So," said he, "are you red silk?" "Yes, Master!" sobbed Ellen. |
| 16 | 397 | "You understand what I am asking?" "Yes, Master!" "You have been opened for the uses of men?" "Yes, Master!" she said. |
| 16 | 398 | There was laughter from the other girls on the shelf. |
| 16 | 399 | Ellen recalled that her master had indeed opened her for the uses of men, rudely, and with authority. |
| 16 | 400 | She remembered her helplessness, she kneeling, facing away, head to the rug, hands clasped behind the back of her neck, astonished, affrighted, outraged, shocked, disbelieving, miserable, yet somehow simultaneously elated, willing, accepting, submitting, and the power of his hands on her body. |
| 16 | 401 | To be sure, he had been uncaring, quick, contemptuous with her. |