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The crowd cried out angrily, "The barbarian! The barbarian!" I was startled when I saw the girl brought forth. - (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 19, Sentence #172)

I supposed the auctioneer had received his instructions from the House of Cernus. The auctioneer was to appear skeptical, cynical. I myself, in spite of my predicament, found myself being awestruck, again and again, by the beauty, the performances, the dances of the girls who were, lot by lot, brought before us; how beautiful are women, how fantastic, how tormenting, how superb, how marvelous, how excruciatingly maddening, and beautiful and marvelous they are! At last, late in the evening, the auctioneer remarked, with something of a sneer, that the first barbarian would be presented, and to remember that he had warned them to expect nothing. The crowd cried out angrily, "The barbarian! The barbarian!" I was startled when I saw the girl brought forth. It was perhaps the plainest of all the barbarians who had been brought on the black ships; though I knew the girl to be among the most intelligent, and also, I had heard, among the most responsive. She was an extremely quick-witted, lively girl, though perhaps somewhat plain. Now, however, as I saw her shuffled across the boards, stiff, wrapped in a worn, dark blanket, she looked dull, stupid. - (Assassin of Gor)