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| 21 | 205 | View more quotes about naturally">Naturally their owner, the state of Cos, would wish them to be exhibited at their best, to be clean, healthy, rested, presentable, attractive. |
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| 21 | 202 | But the rope, of course, held them together, even though it could not be seen. |
| 21 | 203 | Ellen was grateful to the masters for the chance to bathe, to wash away the misery and grime of the march, but she realized that the motivation underlying the provision of this welcome opportunity was surely unlikely to be simply that of generous impulse. |
| 21 | 204 | They were livestock, doubtless being readied for its sale. |
| 21 | 205 | Naturally their owner, the state of Cos, would wish them to be exhibited at their best, to be clean, healthy, rested, presentable, attractive. |
| 21 | 206 | It would wish to enhance their sales value. |
| 21 | 207 | It would want them to be appealing, attractive items of merchandise when it came time to offer them to buyers. |
| 21 | 208 | If these were sobering thoughts, the girls, oblivious of such considerations, and with all the innocence of the lovely, curvaceous animals they were, laughed and chatted, and sported about in the water, splashing and playing, the heat and dust of the march put now behind them. |