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| 18 | 147 | The View more quotes about first">first time, she stood alone within the lower portal, back in the shadows, cringing, miserable, terrified, for more than fifteen Ehn. |
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| 18 | 144 | Even though they might be several feet wide in places, Ellen tended to avoid them. |
| 18 | 145 | They frightened her. |
| 18 | 146 | It required great courage, and resolve, though of course she really had no choice, for Ellen to go into the streets naked, save for her collar. |
| 18 | 147 | The first time, she stood alone within the lower portal, back in the shadows, cringing, miserable, terrified, for more than fifteen Ehn. |
| 18 | 148 | How could she, with her background, her antecedents, her education, her former status and station, her delicacy, her beauty, her shyness, her inhibitions, even think of leaving the cylinder, of going forth as she was? Then, after that time, sobbing, fearing she might be whipped for dallying, she stepped boldly out into the sunlight, a stripped slave in the streets. |
| 18 | 149 | She avoided contact, of course, with the free persons, taking care not to brush against them, not to inconvenience them, not to impede their passage in any way. |
| 18 | 150 | She was especially careful where free women were concerned. |