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| 20 | 86 | View more quotes about curious">Curious, she determined that the coffle was not arranged in order of height, as are many smaller coffles. |
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| 20 | 83 | Ellen estimated that there were between two hundred and fifty and three hundred women in her coffle. |
| 20 | 84 | She knew that coffles of over a thousand women were not unknown. |
| 20 | 85 | Ellen was rather toward the head of the coffle, perhaps some twenty or thirty women from its beginning. |
| 20 | 86 | Curious, she determined that the coffle was not arranged in order of height, as are many smaller coffles. |
| 20 | 87 | In a marching coffle she knew that the most beautiful were often put at the beginning, and the least attractive put at the end. |
| 20 | 88 | Sometimes girls strove for a better coffle position, passionately trying to improve their attractiveness. |
| 20 | 89 | In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors, facial types and such for aesthetic purposes, putting a moderately attractive girl between two less attractive girls to improve, by contrast, the chance of marketing the moderately attractive girl, and so on. |