Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 36 | 556 | He had been View more quotes about denied">denied passage on the River Dragon, which had been of desperate importance to him. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 36 | 553 | "I fear it is negligible," I said. |
| 36 | 554 | It was, after all, only a slave. |
| 36 | 555 | "Good," he said. |
| 36 | 556 | He had been denied passage on the River Dragon, which had been of desperate importance to him. |
| 36 | 557 | What then might compensate him for a loss so grievous? A valuable gift would have been, under the circumstances, cruel, or insulting. |
| 36 | 558 | A negligible gift thus, at least, demonstrated that Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot understood and respected his feelings, acknowledging, in this way, the accepted disparity involved, that the values involved were incommensurable. |
| 36 | 559 | He approached the door, and I stood aside. |
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"I fear it is negligible," I said.
It was, after all, only a slave.
"Good," he said.
He had been denied passage on the River Dragon, which had been of desperate importance to him.
What then might compensate him for a loss so grievous? A valuable gift would have been, under the circumstances, cruel, or insulting.
A negligible gift thus, at least, demonstrated that Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot understood and respected his feelings, acknowledging, in this way, the accepted disparity involved, that the values involved were incommensurable.
He approached the door, and I stood aside.
- (Mariners of Gor)