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| 19 | 85 | She was View more quotes about seldom">seldom chained there now at night, but the chain was still there, and it could be put again on her neck at any time, and then, if so, she must remain there again, held at the ring, fastened in place by the neck, awaiting the pleasure of men. |
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| 19 | 82 | Immediately the soldiers began to ransack the loft area, casting saddles and harnesses about, pulling down tarn baskets, emptying boxes, stirring, and probing, thrusting about, beneath straw with their spears. |
| 19 | 83 | They examined even Ellen's stall. |
| 19 | 84 | She heard the point of a spear move her chain, that fastened to the heavy ring in the floor. |
| 19 | 85 | She was seldom chained there now at night, but the chain was still there, and it could be put again on her neck at any time, and then, if so, she must remain there again, held at the ring, fastened in place by the neck, awaiting the pleasure of men. |
| 19 | 86 | They even went into the kitchen, and the rooms of Portus Canio and the others, emptying chests, pulling things down from shelves, scattering things about in the pantry, cutting into sacks. |
| 19 | 87 | They did not, of course, enter the area occupied by the tarns. |
| 19 | 88 | They did examine the empty cage areas, among them the cage where Ellen, head down, not looking up, her hair forward, scrubbed the boards carefully, lengthwise, as was required, going with their grain. |