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| 25 | 104 | They, View more quotes about clearly">clearly, on the whole, were interested in picking up cheap girls for training and subsequent resale, the first buys in the festival camp being understood largely as speculations or investments. |
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| 25 | 101 | The Cosians, it seemed, had not anticipated that there would be intense, competitive bidding on so many girls. |
| 25 | 102 | But the buyers, clearly, had a greater interest in several of the items marketed than the Cosians, in effect, wholesalers, had anticipated. |
| 25 | 103 | There were many professional slavers in attendance, of course. |
| 25 | 104 | They, clearly, on the whole, were interested in picking up cheap girls for training and subsequent resale, the first buys in the festival camp being understood largely as speculations or investments. |
| 25 | 105 | Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block some two yards in height and twenty feet in diameter with broad, flat steps on each side, by means of which merchandise might be brought conveniently to its surface and, subsequently, with similar ease, taken from it. |
| 25 | 106 | The auditorium, so to speak, was open to the air, and consisted of several ascending tiers of closely spaced benches, these arranged in semicircles on a shallow hill, at the foot of which was the block. |
| 25 | 107 | The block itself, after dark, would be illuminated by torchlight. |