Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 36 | 557 | What then View more quotes about might">might compensate him for a loss so grievous? A valuable gift would have been, under the circumstances, cruel, or insulting. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 36 | 560 | He stopped within the threshold. |
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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.
He stopped within the threshold.
- (Mariners of Gor)