The auditorium, so to speak, was open to the air, and consisted of several ascending tiers of closely spaced benches, these arranged in semicircles on a shallow hill, at the foot of which was the block.
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The block itself, after dark, would be illuminated by torchlight.
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* * * * Ellen followed in line, in pain, almost hobbling, scarcely able to walk.
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The scribe of the exhibition cages and silken enclosure, it seems, had certainly been wrong about one thing.
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When she was taken from the cage she would not run to the block.
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She could scarcely walk to it.
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But, as she walked, gradually, in this activity, in virtue of this gentle movement, in virtue of this concomitant stretching and exercising of her limbs, much of her body pain began to dissipate.
The auditorium, so to speak, was open to the air, and consisted of several ascending tiers of closely spaced benches, these arranged in semicircles on a shallow hill, at the foot of which was the block.
The block itself, after dark, would be illuminated by torchlight.
* * * * Ellen followed in line, in pain, almost hobbling, scarcely able to walk.
The scribe of the exhibition cages and silken enclosure, it seems, had certainly been wrong about one thing.
When she was taken from the cage she would not run to the block.
She could scarcely walk to it.
But, as she walked, gradually, in this activity, in virtue of this gentle movement, in virtue of this concomitant stretching and exercising of her limbs, much of her body pain began to dissipate.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )