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| 8 | 681 | There is much to be said for this, View more quotes about particularly">particularly when one might be sold at night, under torchlight, and one cannot well make out the buyers, save for some on the first tiers. |
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| 8 | 678 | "See them!" said the former Lady Persinna of the girls at the front of the cell, those near the bars. |
| 8 | 679 | "Disgusting! Disgusting!" It is a received wisdom that the higher the price for which one goes the more likely it is to obtain a richer, better-fixed master, and to find oneself in a larger, better-appointed, wealthier household where the labors are likely to be lighter and less frequent. |
| 8 | 680 | Accordingly, it is recommended, as a prudential matter, to display oneself in one's sale as attractively as possible. |
| 8 | 681 | There is much to be said for this, particularly when one might be sold at night, under torchlight, and one cannot well make out the buyers, save for some on the first tiers. |
| 8 | 682 | One often hears only the calls from the darkness. |
| 8 | 683 | Who is bidding? One might discover one's master only when one is unhooded, in a strange domicile. |
| 8 | 684 | It is not unknown, of course, even on my world, for a girl to barter her beauty for gain, for access to exclusive, desirable precincts, to use it in such a way that it might obtain for her advantages and advancement, to win for her wealth and position, and such. |