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| 8 | 975 | The View more quotes about former">former Lady Persinna stood, miserable, small, a slave, the sheet clutched about her. |
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| 8 | 972 | Was it, in spite of its appearance, a high market? Perhaps, I thought, for how could one such as I be sold in any but a high market? Surely I was much too beautiful to be sold in any but a high market. |
| 8 | 973 | I was now muchly pleased that I had not complained about the market, earlier. |
| 8 | 974 | "Behold her," said the auctioneer. |
| 8 | 975 | The former Lady Persinna stood, miserable, small, a slave, the sheet clutched about her. |
| 8 | 976 | Then, a moment later, looking about myself, at the buyers, the street, the local buildings, the crowded shops across the way, I realized how foolish were my conjectures. |
| 8 | 977 | In no way could this barred cell and that circular cement platform be thought a high market. |
| 8 | 978 | We might almost as well have been chained on a slave shelf, where buyers might have examined our teeth, felt our limbs for firmness, and such. |