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| 18 | 173 | View more quotes about ellen">Ellen did see, from time to time, it reassuring her, other naked slaves in the street. |
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| 18 | 170 | She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-shortening conventions, fearing to live, or if it merely referred to Earth as a welcome, vulnerable resource for the predations of slavers, a world where lovely animals, perhaps rather such as she herself now was, might be netted with impunity, and chained, or crated, and brought to distant markets for their sale. |
| 18 | 171 | "Stand straight, slave girl," whispered a yellow-tunicked, long-legged slave, as she passed. |
| 18 | 172 | "Yes, Mistress," whispered Ellen. |
| 18 | 173 | Ellen did see, from time to time, it reassuring her, other naked slaves in the street. |
| 18 | 174 | To be sure, she supposed them low slaves, or perhaps slaves under discipline, perhaps denied clothing for several days as a consequence of some imperfection, or possible imperfection, in their service. |
| 18 | 175 | Then she saw a proud slave girl preceding her master, her shoulders back, her head high, her long hair blowing about her back. |
| 18 | 176 | She was stark naked. |