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| 13 | 161 | A View more quotes about woman">woman may wear earrings on the block early in the sale, or even ornate, expensive garments and veils, if one wishes, but before the conclusion of the sale she will be absolutely naked, that the buyers may see her without adornments, without the least enhancement, that they will see her then as she is, simply, in herself. |
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| 13 | 158 | The wound in my left ear lobe, from the wire of the marking tag, had been redone, and enlarged, and then its wound was duplicated, with the same needle, in the lobe of my right ear. |
| 13 | 159 | In the pens, to keep the apertures open, a bit of wire had been twice looped in each lobe. |
| 13 | 160 | The wires had been removed this afternoon. |
| 13 | 161 | A woman may wear earrings on the block early in the sale, or even ornate, expensive garments and veils, if one wishes, but before the conclusion of the sale she will be absolutely naked, that the buyers may see her without adornments, without the least enhancement, that they will see her then as she is, simply, in herself. |
| 13 | 162 | For it is that, of course, that the men are bidding on, the woman herself. |
| 13 | 163 | He looked down at me, and kicked me, lightly, with the side of his foot. |
| 13 | 164 | "Stand, Slave," he said. |