Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 26 | 454 | Such a venture would not in all likelihood have been View more quotes about attempted">attempted by one who labored only for gold. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 26 | 451 | "I have watched you carefully, Tarl Cabot of the City of Ko-ro-ba," said he, Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
| 26 | 452 | "Once you spared my life, and we held grass and earth together, and from that time, even had you been outlaw and knave, I would have died for you, but still, of course, I could not give you the egg. |
| 26 | 453 | Then you went with Harold to the city, and so I knew that to seize the egg against such overwhelming odds you were ready to give your life. |
| 26 | 454 | Such a venture would not in all likelihood have been attempted by one who labored only for gold. |
| 26 | 455 | That taught me that it was indeed probable that you were he chosen by Priest-Kings to come for the egg". |
| 26 | 456 | "That is why," I asked, "you let me go to Turia—though you knew the Golden Sphere was worthless?" "Yes," said Kamchak, "that is why". |
| 26 | 457 | "And why, after that," I asked, "did you not give me the egg?" Kamchak smiled. |
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"I have watched you carefully, Tarl Cabot of the City of Ko-ro-ba," said he, Kamchak of the Tuchuks.
"Once you spared my life, and we held grass and earth together, and from that time, even had you been outlaw and knave, I would have died for you, but still, of course, I could not give you the egg.
Then you went with Harold to the city, and so I knew that to seize the egg against such overwhelming odds you were ready to give your life.
Such a venture would not in all likelihood have been attempted by one who labored only for gold.
That taught me that it was indeed probable that you were he chosen by Priest-Kings to come for the egg".
"That is why," I asked, "you let me go to Turia—though you knew the Golden Sphere was worthless?" "Yes," said Kamchak, "that is why".
"And why, after that," I asked, "did you not give me the egg?" Kamchak smiled.
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