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| 4 | 48 | How View more quotes about piteously">piteously they strive to elicit interest. |
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| 4 | 45 | It is common, time permitting, the market conditions appropriate, to isolate such items, in their boxes or cages, for some days before their sale. |
| 4 | 46 | Their needs are made clear by their scratching at the walls of kennels, their pressings against the bars of cages, their sobbings and entreaties before the guards, who will ignore them. |
| 4 | 47 | They are well ready then, when brought to the block. |
| 4 | 48 | How piteously they strive to elicit interest. |
| 4 | 49 | It is natural, of course, for an item to wish to sell well. |
| 4 | 50 | A well- presented item, other things being equal, is likely to bring a better price, and a richer master, with the likelihood of an easier life, less work, and greater prestige. |
| 4 | 51 | Too, vanity courses brightly, rushing unobstructed, amongst such goods, familiar with such things, and each desires to win a fine price, and, particularly, one better than that garnered by rivals, or others of the house. |