Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 19 | 490 | I View more quotes about smiled">smiled bitterly. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 487 | I was pleased that it had been Ephialtes, and not I, who had presented the letters at the checkpoint. |
| 19 | 488 | Probably, at the demand of the officer, I would have surrendered them. |
| 19 | 489 | And doubtless, if not there, then somewhere else I might have surrendered them, in some context, or upon some demand, somewhere or another. |
| 19 | 490 | I smiled bitterly. |
| 19 | 491 | Letters of safety, indeed! They had not been letters of safety so much, it seemed, as death warrants, or orders for execution, laden with mortal peril for any so bold or foolish as to carry them. |
| 19 | 492 | I saw the small figure of Ephialtes disappearing now in the distance. |
| 19 | 493 | He had sought to steal protection but had purloined only death. |
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I was pleased that it had been Ephialtes, and not I, who had presented the letters at the checkpoint.
Probably, at the demand of the officer, I would have surrendered them.
And doubtless, if not there, then somewhere else I might have surrendered them, in some context, or upon some demand, somewhere or another.
I smiled bitterly.
Letters of safety, indeed! They had not been letters of safety so much, it seemed, as death warrants, or orders for execution, laden with mortal peril for any so bold or foolish as to carry them.
I saw the small figure of Ephialtes disappearing now in the distance.
He had sought to steal protection but had purloined only death.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)