Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 34 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps it simply pleased the shogun, who was reputed to have a fondness for jests. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 31 | But I could not understand her presence at the table. |
| 20 | 32 | Perhaps it was twofold, first, that her beauty and charm would add luster to the evening; and, second, that the categorical reversal of her fortune, perhaps suddenly manifested, would be found instructive by the guests, as they would then better understand the consequences of having failed the shogun. |
| 20 | 33 | But, too, it may have been much simpler. |
| 20 | 34 | Perhaps it simply pleased the shogun, who was reputed to have a fondness for jests. |
| 20 | 35 | I had heard that more than one individual had been summoned to the palace, thinking to be honored and rewarded, and had perished miserably in the straw jacket. |
| 20 | 36 | Three slaves attended on the tables, mostly head down, that they might not meet the eyes of free persons. |
| 20 | 37 | Their service, as was appropriate for Gorean slaves, was graceful, deferential, efficient, silent, and unobtrusive. |
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But I could not understand her presence at the table.
Perhaps it was twofold, first, that her beauty and charm would add luster to the evening; and, second, that the categorical reversal of her fortune, perhaps suddenly manifested, would be found instructive by the guests, as they would then better understand the consequences of having failed the shogun.
But, too, it may have been much simpler.
Perhaps it simply pleased the shogun, who was reputed to have a fondness for jests.
I had heard that more than one individual had been summoned to the palace, thinking to be honored and rewarded, and had perished miserably in the straw jacket.
Three slaves attended on the tables, mostly head down, that they might not meet the eyes of free persons.
Their service, as was appropriate for Gorean slaves, was graceful, deferential, efficient, silent, and unobtrusive.
- (Rebels of Gor)