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| 20 | 599 | The View more quotes about rope">rope was long enough to serve as well as a leash, and, moments after she had been ordered to her feet, some yard or so of it, rising from her confined wrists, had been looped and knotted about her throat, its free end then, some five feet or so in length, serving as a leash. |
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| 20 | 596 | The slave obeyed instantly, unquestioningly, as slaves must. |
| 20 | 597 | She heard the younger lad now splashing through the reeds. |
| 20 | 598 | In a short time he returned and her hands were bound behind her back. |
| 20 | 599 | The rope was long enough to serve as well as a leash, and, moments after she had been ordered to her feet, some yard or so of it, rising from her confined wrists, had been looped and knotted about her throat, its free end then, some five feet or so in length, serving as a leash. |
| 20 | 600 | Ellen knew that sometimes even desiderated slaves, before a submission ceremony, were put on a simple camp rope and led about, that they would better understand their condition and status, that of a domestic animal, but in her case the rope was not symbolic in nature, but effected a simple utility, constituting a device for keeping and controlling a girl. |
| 20 | 601 | Ellen, bound, was led on her leash, stumbling, wading, through the reeds. |
| 20 | 602 | A bit later she was placed in a small, flat-bottomed boat, on her belly, under a tarpaulin. |