Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 18 | 173 | Her wagers had, at any rate, proved uniformly disastrous. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 18 | 170 | As the story went, and my own View more quotes about knowledge">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. |
| 18 | 175 | She had had to flee from Venna under the cover of darkness, that she not be delivered to the mercies of her creditors. |
| 18 | 176 | Such creditors often come for a woman with a collar and chain. |
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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.
She had had to flee from Venna under the cover of darkness, that she not be delivered to the mercies of her creditors.
Such creditors often come for a woman with a collar and chain.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor)