Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 18 | 171 | She had View more quotes about thought">thought herself, in virtue of the possession of significant and secret information, assured of certain winners in these races. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 18 | 168 | I recalled that she had hoped to recoup her lost fortunes in such races. |
| 18 | 169 | Apparently she had failed to do so. |
| 18 | 170 | As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races. |
| 18 | 171 | She had thought herself, in virtue of the possession of significant and secret information, assured of certain winners in these races. |
| 18 | 172 | Unfortunately for her this information, as I suspect is often the case in such matters, proved unreliable. |
| 18 | 173 | Her wagers had, at any rate, proved uniformly disastrous. |
| 18 | 174 | She had become a ruined woman. |
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I recalled that she had hoped to recoup her lost fortunes in such races.
Apparently she had failed to do so.
As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races.
She had thought herself, in virtue of the possession of significant and secret information, assured of certain winners in these races.
Unfortunately for her this information, as I suspect is often the case in such matters, proved unreliable.
Her wagers had, at any rate, proved uniformly disastrous.
She had become a ruined woman.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor)