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Initially, I fear this familiarity frightened him; even now he would not converse with me, other than in some brief harmless way, or in response to some simple question about his work or the plantings; he would turn away, and busy himself elsewhere. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #18)

Unfortunately I was generally permitted in the garden only during the day. Near me, the gardener, Haruki, silently, was pruning shrubbery. I had inquired his name in the palace, and had made it a point to greet him, from time to time, in a friendly manner. Initially, I fear this familiarity frightened him; even now he would not converse with me, other than in some brief harmless way, or in response to some simple question about his work or the plantings; he would turn away, and busy himself elsewhere. The Pani were very conscious of rank. Several days ago I think I may have done him some service, when Lord Akio, with a noble's innocence, and no particularly malevolent intent, was ready to show me the deadliness of his flung war fan. Instead I had prevailed upon him to demonstrate his prowess, and the seriousness of the weapon, on a young tree, whose trunk had been half severed, as though with the single blow of an ax, which tree, at the behest of Lord Akio, had been subsequently replaced. - (Rebels of Gor)