Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 19 | I had recognized two of the View more quotes about soldiers">soldiers, and the officer. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 16 | Who, for example, would bother slaying a tarsk, or a kaiila? Instead, one would herd them, or rope them. |
| 7 | 17 | One would appropriate them. |
| 7 | 18 | It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves. |
| 7 | 19 | I had recognized two of the soldiers, and the officer. |
| 7 | 20 | They had been patrons of the house. |
| 7 | 21 | They had lost heavily. |
| 7 | 22 | Of course we were guilty! Did we not know of the manipulation of the tables' spins, of the dishonest stones, the fraudulent dice, the ostraka which, to the informed eye, could be read? Did we not invite in the patrons, at the door, with our smiles, the glances over our shoulders, our fingers lightly touching our brands beneath the cloth, not silk, but rep cloth, for ours was a shabby den for its purposes. |
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Who, for example, would bother slaying a tarsk, or a kaiila? Instead, one would herd them, or rope them.
One would appropriate them.
It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves.
I had recognized two of the soldiers, and the officer.
They had been patrons of the house.
They had lost heavily.
Of course we were guilty! Did we not know of the manipulation of the tables' spins, of the dishonest stones, the fraudulent dice, the ostraka which, to the informed eye, could be read? Did we not invite in the patrons, at the door, with our smiles, the glances over our shoulders, our fingers lightly touching our brands beneath the cloth, not silk, but rep cloth, for ours was a shabby den for its purposes.
- (Conspirators of Gor)