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| 25 | 48 | In such a device her contrition View more quotes about quickly">quickly becomes authentic, her lessons are learned and her ways mended. |
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| 25 | 45 | * * * * Ellen had knelt in the tiny cage, confined there, grasping the bars, waiting. |
| 25 | 46 | Every muscle in her body had seemed to ache. |
| 25 | 47 | The cage was of the sort commonly used for a disciplinary device, one in which an errant slave might be incarcerated pending the subsidence of a master's ire. |
| 25 | 48 | In such a device her contrition quickly becomes authentic, her lessons are learned and her ways mended. |
| 25 | 49 | Powerful resolutions of improved service are quickly formed in that small space. |
| 25 | 50 | It is the sort of device into which a proud free woman might be thrust but out of which creeps a humbled, self-acknowledged slave, asking only to be permitted to please, in any way the master might wish. |
| 25 | 51 | Such cages are designed for the small body of a woman, and this particular cage had been designed for a small woman. |