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| 25 | 238 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure, after the days of the sales, there might be some women left over. |
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| 25 | 235 | It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this case the state of Cos, the amount of merchandise being offered and the relatively brief duration of the sale, some three days, it seemed. |
| 25 | 236 | That was not a long time in which to dispose of so considerable an amount of stock, something in the vicinity of a thousand women. |
| 25 | 237 | Perhaps that explained something of the urgency, the impatience, of the attendants. |
| 25 | 238 | To be sure, after the days of the sales, there might be some women left over. |
| 25 | 239 | A thousand women, or so, was a great many to dispose of in three days, even if several were vended in lots. |
| 25 | 240 | The lane next to Ellen's had now been emptied, and, a little later, another chain of women was introduced into it. |
| 25 | 241 | The lanes, it seemed, were not going in any obvious order, at least in any order obvious to the occupants of the lanes. |