The sound of leather sandals and boots was softened, and subtly different now, on the damp stones.
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827
There was the sound of a heavy, trundling wheel moving through a puddle.
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828
A child splashed and was reprimanded.
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Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or sandaled feet from dust and mud.
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830
Ellen did not look at them, for she feared free women, and, as most slave girls, avoided meeting their eyes directly, lest they be thought insolent and be punished.
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The water on the shelf became warm and began to steam upward in the heat.
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832
Much then seemed to her incomprehensible.
The sound of leather sandals and boots was softened, and subtly different now, on the damp stones.
There was the sound of a heavy, trundling wheel moving through a puddle.
A child splashed and was reprimanded.
Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or sandaled feet from dust and mud.
Ellen did not look at them, for she feared free women, and, as most slave girls, avoided meeting their eyes directly, lest they be thought insolent and be punished.
The water on the shelf became warm and began to steam upward in the heat.
Much then seemed to her incomprehensible.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )