Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 178 | Were they View more quotes about really">really spurious, and had they really been intended to bring about the surrender of Ar's Station why would they not have been more realistically conceived, that they might have been more likely to achieve such a purpose? For example, why would they not have been in some cipher, one which might, after a reasonable effort, be broken? Too, why would such a purportedly authentic document contain information which must surely, at least to the officers at Ar's Station, seem militarily implausible, if not preposterous, for example, that Ar should have forces in the numbers named in the north, and unengaged! No, Aemilianus, weary and confused as he might be, was no fool. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 175 | I was not surprised that Aemilianus was less certain what to do with me. |
| 13 | 176 | My own case, in his mind, must seem somewhat ambiguous. |
| 13 | 177 | Why, for example, would I not have been dealt with directly in Ar, if they were convinced that I was truly a spy? Too, there was the matter of the documents in the diplomatic pouch. |
| 13 | 178 | Were they really spurious, and had they really been intended to bring about the surrender of Ar's Station why would they not have been more realistically conceived, that they might have been more likely to achieve such a purpose? For example, why would they not have been in some cipher, one which might, after a reasonable effort, be broken? Too, why would such a purportedly authentic document contain information which must surely, at least to the officers at Ar's Station, seem militarily implausible, if not preposterous, for example, that Ar should have forces in the numbers named in the north, and unengaged! No, Aemilianus, weary and confused as he might be, was no fool. |
| 13 | 179 | Doubtless he had begun to suspect that the report, though perhaps absurd or false, was authentic. |
| 13 | 180 | Too, days had passed and the hoped-for relief from Ar, the advance of which he had speculated might have precipitated so desperate and foolish a ruse, had not materialized. |
| 13 | 181 | "It is terribly painful, impalement, is it not?" she asked. |
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I was not surprised that Aemilianus was less certain what to do with me.
My own case, in his mind, must seem somewhat ambiguous.
Why, for example, would I not have been dealt with directly in Ar, if they were convinced that I was truly a spy? Too, there was the matter of the documents in the diplomatic pouch.
Were they really spurious, and had they really been intended to bring about the surrender of Ar's Station why would they not have been more realistically conceived, that they might have been more likely to achieve such a purpose? For example, why would they not have been in some cipher, one which might, after a reasonable effort, be broken? Too, why would such a purportedly authentic document contain information which must surely, at least to the officers at Ar's Station, seem militarily implausible, if not preposterous, for example, that Ar should have forces in the numbers named in the north, and unengaged! No, Aemilianus, weary and confused as he might be, was no fool.
Doubtless he had begun to suspect that the report, though perhaps absurd or false, was authentic.
Too, days had passed and the hoped-for relief from Ar, the advance of which he had speculated might have precipitated so desperate and foolish a ruse, had not materialized.
"It is terribly painful, impalement, is it not?" she asked.
- (Renegades of Gor)