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Book 27. (439 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	273	Ellen had not been recognized in the pool, she was sure, neither by Portus Canio nor Fel Doron, nor by the subcaptain and Tersius Major, the attentions of the latter pair being focused generally on Portus Canio and Fel Doron, whom, she supposed, they had come out to discomfit, witnessing them in the...	10
21	225	She gasped, for these were the figures of the Cosian subcaptain, known to her from the tarn loft of Portus Canio in Ar, and from the coffle, and Tersius Major, who had been in the employ of Portus Canio, and who had left Ar with them.	10
21	231	There was no response from Portus Canio and the subcaptain gestured to the soldier with the whip, who struck Portus Canio twice.	10
26	680	"Perhaps you can cut his throat later," said Fel Doron, slapping Portus Canio jovially on the shoulder, and Portus Canio grinned, and snorted in disgust.	10
27	2143	"We are not slaves!" said the fellow of Portus Canio, Loquatus, only he left of the original nine, other than Portus Canio himself, Selius Arconious and Fel Doron.	10
18	20	"Dress, slut," said Portus Canio, tarnmaster of the Tower of Corridon.	10
18	24	"Surely you have duties, slut," said Portus Canio.	10
18	29	The legend of the collar read "I am Ellen, the slave of Portus Canio".	10
18	30	To be sure, the reader familiar with Gorean conventions might have noted that Ellen, in her understandable unease, having been discovered, though through no obvious fault of her own, in what might seem a dalliance, or a laxity in her duties, had responded to Canio with the phrase 'my Master'.	10
18	35	"What is your name?" had asked Portus Canio, some weeks ago, when Ellen, freed of the hood, had knelt, head to the floor, still chained by the neck, still back-braceleted, before him in the stall.	10
18	38	"What have you been called?" Portus Canio had inquired.	10
18	53	She looked after Portus Canio, doubtless her master, whose name she would learn only later, and from others.	10
18	61	"Ho!" said Portus Canio, turning and glaring at young Selius Arconious.	10
18	79	Within the portal was the "tarncot," so to speak, of Portus Canio, which was, in effect, for the most part, a large, lofty, barnlike area, certainly that within the great portal.	10
18	91	There were also, these accessible from the larger area, some hallways, and a number of ancillary rooms, a kitchen, a pantry, living quarters, a workroom, sometimes used, the office of Portus Canio, and so on.	10
18	130	It said, as we recall, "I am Ellen, the slave of Portus Canio".	10
18	208	What would my ideological sisters say if they could see me here, in Ar, a naked slave! I am pleased to be such! Let them cry out in anger, in scorn, in contempt! I would not give the peel of a larma for all that they might think! But see if you, dear, righteous sisters, would behave any differently,...	10
18	218	Her master, however, Portus Canio, she knew, had a Home Stone.	10
18	223	It had been only two weeks ago that Portus Canio, apparently satisfied with her service, perhaps even pleased, had thrown a small wad of cloth before her, as she had knelt in her stall.	10
18	244	"It can be shorter," said Portus Canio.	10
18	256	It is not unusual for slave girls denied clothing to beg piteously for a rag with which to cover themselves, at least when they dare to do so, but Ellen had not importuned Portus Canio with respect to this privilege, fearing the exasperation of his patience, fearing to be beaten.	10
18	268	Portus Canio had left but Selius Arconious was still standing in the vicinity of the great portal.	10
18	284	That had been done by Portus Canio, her master, of course.	10
18	318	"I trust that my Master, the noble Portus Canio, your employer," said Ellen to Selius Arconious, "does not inquire of me as to your behavior, and if you have been attentive to your duties, for I, as a slave, however reluctantly, knelt down to speak the truth, would have to admit that you have been l...	10
18	339	"We all fear tarns," Portus Canio had told her once, on the platform.	10
18	394	Just as Ellen was not permitted, nor would be many slaves, to leave the domicile of the master without permission, so, too, she was not permitted, without express permission, to open the interior door of the apartments of Portus Canio, that leading to the interior stairwell, giving access to various...	10
18	398	Portus Canio, himself, would admit these visitors, but only, whether it were early evening or late at night, after he had hooded Ellen, back-braceleted her and chained her in her stall.	10
18	401	Portus Canio entertained these visitors in the kitchen, apparently about the table there.	10
18	404	"What have you there?" asked Portus Canio.	10
18	428	"Assume the standard position for the examination of a standing slave," said Portus Canio.	10
18	437	"Steady," said Portus Canio.	10
18	439	"A tiny tube has been inserted in your body," said Portus Canio.	10
18	446	Accordingly, she was unable to reach whatever it was which Portus Canio had placed in her body.	10
18	450	"Are your thighs hot?" asked Portus Canio.	10
18	463	"It is an order for work sandals, for the men, with their sizes, and such," said Portus Canio.	10
18	487	"Convey my greetings to Portus Canio, your master," said he, "and inform him that the order will be filled by the tenth Ahn, the second day from this".	10
18	496	He is muchly different from Portus Canio, my master.	10
18	500	But I think I prefer Portus Canio, my master.	10
18	504	I do not think he would be patient with me, not at all, even as patient as Portus Canio.	10
18	543	Then, her ankles cruelly, widely spread, held far apart, she could feel the edges of the table on each side, the object which Portus Canio had inserted within her was drawn free.	10
18	560	She wondered if that were because she was the property of Portus Canio, or merely because these were serious men, who had more important things on their minds than such as she.	10
18	571	"What is going on here?" said Portus Canio, entering the room.	10
18	576	She stood then straight, as Portus Canio was present, reddening, looking embarrassed, trying to look indignant.	10
18	588	"The sight of you to a man," said Portus Canio to Ellen, "is like thrusting a torch into straw.	10
18	592	Portus Canio then left.	10
18	621	With a cry of anger, Ellen spun about and hurried to the office of Portus Canio.	10
18	644	Ellen was at the public laundry pools on a given morning, those local to her district, toward the ninth Ahn, something before noon, kneeling on a towel, working on the laundry for Portus Canio and his men.	10
18	666	He was in the employ of Portus Canio, her master, and, given her duties, there was no way she could avoid doing his laundry.	10
18	741	"Who is your master?" "Portus Canio, of Ar," said Ellen.	10
18	801	That evening, after supper, she knelt before Portus Canio, and asked if she might be belled.	10
18	802	"Why?" asked Portus Canio.	10
19	1	What Occurred in the Tarn Loft; One Must Make Haste "The shop of Bonto has been burned! He himself has been seized by Cosians!" cried Fel Doron, he of the employ of Portus Canio, bursting into the loft area, from the interior door.	10
19	86	They even went into the kitchen, and the rooms of Portus Canio and the others, emptying chests, pulling things down from shelves, scattering things about in the pantry, cutting into sacks.	10
19	113	"Give me a tarn goad," said the officer to Portus Canio.	10
19	125	"Only cowards fear tarns," said Portus Canio.	10
19	127	"They are so tame?" inquired the officer, irritably, turning to regard Portus Canio.	10
19	128	"I do not know what could be the matter," said Portus Canio.	10
19	199	"I will send a man here tonight, a slaver, or slaver's man, to pick her up," said the officer to Portus Canio.	10
19	200	"Cos treats her allies well," said Portus Canio.	10
19	203	"Sir," said Portus Canio.	10
19	205	"There seems to be some disturbance in the city, some commotion in the streets," said Portus Canio.	10
19	636	On this world there are men such as Portus Canio and Selius Arconious! I am a woman.	10
19	751	I would think that it would be Portus Canio, my master, who must fear, and Fel Doron and Tersius Major, his associates and friends, for they are free persons and would doubtless be held accountable for their actions, for theft, treason, or such.	10
20	62	He was the Cosian subcaptain who had demanded documentation of Portus Canio, the subcaptain whose men had searched the loft, he who had confiscated her in the name of Cos, wiring the tag to her collar.	10
20	67	What was the fate of Portus Canio, Fel Doron and Tersius Major, she wondered.	10
20	237	She tried to despise herself for her weakness, for her behavior before Portus Canio.	10
20	266	Tersius Major must have been signaling Portus Canio and Fel Doron, she supposed.	10
20	274	The two lead tarns and baskets, those of Portus Canio and Fel Doron, continued on their way, apparently unaware that Tersius Major had left the train, and that his trailing tarns had been, in effect, loosed.	10
20	278	The tarns and baskets of Portus Canio and Fel Doron continued on their way.	10
20	280	Was this an elected point? Was this prearranged with Portus Canio and Fel Doron? They seemed to be continuing directly on.	10
20	282	Had that signal been intended for Portus Canio and Fel Doron, or for others? Others, surely.	10
20	283	Indeed, perhaps Portus Canio and Fel Doron were aware of the signal, it forming a part of their plans.	10
20	291	These were surely no allies of Portus Canio and his tarnsters.	10
20	464	My master is Portus Canio, of Ar.	10
20	877	"Portus Canio, of Ar, was your master," he said.	10
20	881	Ellen wondered if he had heard the name of Portus Canio, of Ar, before.	10
20	1036	One was the subcaptain, the Cosian officer, who had been in the loft of Portus Canio, whose men had ransacked it, indeed, he who had wired the tag to her collar, and who had spoken to her earlier.	10
21	44	She wore no collar now, that of Portus Canio, with the tag attached by the subcaptain, having been removed some days earlier in the Cosian camp.	10
21	124	Ellen recognized Portus Canio! He did not see her.	10
21	127	How awry had turned out the brave adventure of Portus Canio! "Thus to the enemies of Cos!" called out their attendant, spitting toward the group of prisoners, or slaves.	10
21	131	She did not wish to be recognized by either Portus Canio or Fel Doron.	10
21	132	Surely Portus Canio was miserable enough.	10
21	215	Approaching the pool was the line of prisoners, or slaves, which contained Portus Canio and Fel Doron.	10
21	218	She did not wish to be seen by either Portus Canio or Fel Doron.	10
21	226	"So, the noble Portus Canio, of Ar, who dared conspire against the might of Cos, now carries water, as though he might be a slave, to replenish the contents of a cistern, one devoted to the drinking of tharlarion and the ablutions of slaves," said the subcaptain.	10
21	228	Portus Canio lifted his head a little, and looked, dully, at the subcaptain.	10
21	235	"I am greater now than you," said Tersius Major to Portus Canio.	10
21	241	Portus Canio lifted his eyes to those of Tersius Major.	10
21	247	Portus Canio put down his head.	10
21	252	"Yes," said Portus Canio, the effort to speak seeming to cost him much.	10
21	261	Portus Canio did not lift his head.	10
21	263	Portus Canio raised his head, painfully, angrily.	10
21	267	The suggestion that Portus Canio, a free man, might wash slaves was, of course, a grievous insult.	10
22	216	She had seen that letter in Ar, scrawled on a wall, and also on an ostrakon in the holding of Portus Canio.	10
24	640	"Are you searching for Portus Canio, for Fel Doron, for Tersius Major? Beware of Tersius Major!" "Or," she thought wildly, "have you come here following a slave? I trust you have not come here for me, for my number is 117, and you will not be able to afford me! You are the sort of man to whom a woma...	10
26	113	"Portus Canio and Fel Doron are in this camp, in chains," said Ellen, hastily, fearing to be interrupted, the words spilling out.	10
26	117	Beware of Tersius Major! Portus Canio and Fel Doron are even now awaiting transportation to Cos or Tyros, perhaps to the quarries!" "Do not concern yourself about such things, slave girl," said Selius Arconious.	10
26	118	"Portus Canio and Fel Doron are your friends!" said Ellen.	10
26	251	She suspected that Portus Canio and Fel Doron had been under this impression as well.	10
26	252	Indeed, she suspected, though it was scarcely a matter of which slaves might speak, that Portus Canio and Fel Doron, and, supposedly, Tersius Major, had planned to strike at this treasure, in order to weaken and worsen the occupation in Ar, to outrage the garrison posted there, to outrage both the m...	10
26	655	But Portus Canio and Fel Doron, each in the garb of a Cosian guardsman, cautioned her to silence.	10
26	666	"What occurred?" asked Portus Canio.	10
26	678	"I would prefer to cut his throat," said Portus Canio.	10
26	713	"Is there to be a change of the guard here?" asked the dark-haired man of Portus Canio.	10
26	747	"Have you not overlooked something?" asked Portus Canio, grinning.	10
26	749	"Let us consider the matter," said Portus Canio.	10
26	754	"Of course not," said Portus Canio.	10
26	763	"But," said Portus Canio, "I might be willing to sell her to you".	10
26	774	Slowly, as Ellen watched, delighted, Selius Arconious, angrily, reluctantly, removing them one by one from his purse, placed twenty-one silver tarsks, of Ar, in the hands of Portus Canio.	10
26	775	Portus Canio looked down at Ellen.	10
26	785	"I wanted to see how much you wanted her," said Portus Canio.	10
26	789	"Give me a tarsk-bit," smiled Portus Canio.	10
26	794	Ellen stiffened as he then gave a tarsk-bit, the hundredth part of a mere copper tarsk, to Portus Canio.	10
26	796	"That is doubtless, objectively, what she is worth," said Portus Canio.	10
26	798	Ellen looked angrily, from her knees, she back-braceleted, from Portus Canio to Selius Arconious.	10
26	799	"To the feet of your master, slut," snapped Portus Canio.	10
26	827	As Portus Canio had referred to Bosk of Port Kar and Marcus, of Ar's Station, as friends of the "scarlet caste," they must be then, thought Ellen, of the Warriors.	10
26	837	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
26	841	"He is with us, for whatever reason," said Portus Canio.	10
26	855	"There is little to do now," said Portus Canio.	10
26	858	"Not counting the freed prisoners, fifty," said Portus Canio.	10
26	889	"But did he not tell Ellen, his slave, and in the presence of Master Canio, and others, that he wanted her, and seemingly badly, in his collar?" "Yes," he said.	10
26	900	"Portus! Portus Canio!" "Yes," said Portus, turning about.	10
26	1035	Selius Arconious was there, and Portus Canio, and Fel Doron, and others, including the red-haired man, he so much like a larl, claimedly from Port Kar, it seemed of the Warriors, and his fellow, the dark-haired, lithe man, said to be of Ar's Station, also it seemed of the Warriors, which was somewhe...	10
26	1043	"Certainly," grinned Portus Canio, and rose to his feet.	10
26	1073	"They did not recognize you," said Portus Canio to Selius Arconious.	10
26	1079	"Yes, perhaps we should leave," said another fellow, looking at Portus Canio.	10
26	1121	"It is not time yet," said Portus Canio.	10
26	1127	"Two Ahn, two and a half Ahn, something like that," said Portus Canio.	10
26	1128	Ellen, under the blanket, could see nothing, but she gathered from small sounds that the counsel of Portus Canio and Fel Doron had prevailed, and that their uneasy fellows had now returned to their places by the fire.	10
26	1380	"Is it time to flight tarns?" asked Portus Canio.	10
26	1392	"We might pretend to rest, as it is late," said Portus Canio.	10
26	1490	"Portus Canio might know".	10
27	2	Portus Canio, Fel Doron, and their small company, including he known as Bosk of Port Kar, and Marcus of Ar's Station, were moving eastward, away from the camp which had been outside Brundisium, not southeastward, toward Ar.	10
27	11	With them, of course, as unhurried, as unnoticed, as others, had gone Portus Canio, Fel Doron and those accompanying them.	10
27	138	Portus Canio and the others, then, would presumably turn southeast, toward Ar, hoping to reach the great southern road, the Viktel Aria, Ar's Victory.	10
27	165	"Do not break," said Portus Canio.	10
27	178	"Ellen," said Portus Canio, not looking at her, "down.	10
27	184	"Continue as you were," said Portus Canio to Fel Doron.	10
27	189	"Have they seen us?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	191	"I saw five," said Portus Canio.	10
27	203	"That may not be true," said Portus Canio, grimly.	10
27	206	"Can you see banners, weaponry?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	211	"We will continue on our way," said Portus Canio.	10
27	213	"Stand," said Portus Canio.	10
27	219	"I do not understand this," said Portus Canio.	10
27	223	"Perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
27	226	Portus Canio swung himself over the side of the wagon, and stood upright beside her for several Ihn, looking backward.	10
27	244	Portus Canio growled softly, held her for a moment, then laughed softly, and then placed her gently on the blankets in the wagon bed.	10
27	246	Someone wants me! Someone thinks I am of interest! Indeed, it had been Portus Canio who had bought her off the shelf of Targo in Ar, in the Kettle Market! She stole a glance at Selius Arconious.	10
27	249	"Keep watch, behind us, and to the sides," said Portus Canio.	10
27	328	"Where are they?" "Who knows?" "Where did they go?" "Who knows?" "Why did they leave?" asked a man of Portus Canio.	10
27	329	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	333	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	337	"What did they know that we do not?" asked a man of Portus Canio.	10
27	338	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	339	"Why did they permit us to make so little ground yesterday?" asked another man of Portus Canio.	10
27	340	"One does not question such men," said Portus Canio.	10
27	342	"They are of the Warriors," said Portus Canio.	10
27	345	"Yes, of course," said Portus Canio.	10
27	349	"Feel free to do so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	351	Portus Canio's original interlocutor turned white.	10
27	354	Portus Canio did not respond.	10
27	356	"Harness the tharlarion," said Portus Canio.	10
27	368	* * * * It had not been more than an Ahn since the harnessing of the tharlarion and the breaking of the camp than Portus Canio called the halt.	10
27	370	Portus Canio was not the only one who had caught the scent.	10
27	372	Portus Canio climbed to the wagon box, beside Fel Doron, and stood, facing backward, shading his eyes.	10
27	381	"Arm yourselves," said Portus Canio.	10
27	386	"Free the spears," said Portus Canio.	10
27	390	"They are tracking," said Portus Canio.	10
27	394	"I would not think so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	400	"Look about," he encouraged Portus Canio.	10
27	401	Portus Canio, standing on the wagon box, looked then to all sides of the wagon, to each barren, windswept horizon.	10
27	403	"I see nothing," said Portus Canio.	10
27	405	"Have they seen us?" "I cannot tell," said Portus Canio.	10
27	406	"Are they Cosians?" "I do not think so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	410	"I think they have seen us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	412	"Six men," said Portus Canio, slowly.	10
27	415	"They are not alone," said Portus Canio, slowly.	10
27	418	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	444	"Hit the sleen first," said Portus Canio to the two bowmen.	10
27	464	"Tal!" called Portus Canio, pleasantly enough, from before the bench of the wagon box, where he stood.	10
27	470	"In the matter of the quarrels," said Portus Canio, softly, to the two bowmen, one on each side of the wagon, "use your discretion".	10
27	473	Though the men on tharlarion, the strangers, doubtless heard nothing, she had little doubt but what Portus Canio's soft remark, little more than a whisper, had been clearly audible to the beast.	10
27	475	"Tal!" repeated Portus Canio.	10
27	507	Portus Canio, puzzled, looked to Ellen.	10
27	534	"We have no Cosian gold," said Portus Canio.	10
27	549	"You have brought five men, and five beasts, and two sleen, to regain a single slave?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	553	"We are nine men," said Portus Canio, puzzled.	10
27	648	Several of the men in the party of Portus Canio cried out in alarm, and astonishment.	10
27	654	"That is a forbidden weapon," said Portus Canio.	10
27	656	"By the Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio.	10
27	660	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	686	"Few would deny that the caste of Initiates are parasites," said Portus Canio, who held no great brief for that caste.	10
27	695	"The Priest-Kings," suggested Portus Canio.	10
27	697	Portus Canio was silent.	10
27	701	"I do not understand," said Portus Canio.	10
27	703	"And so there are no Priest-Kings?" said Portus Canio.	10
27	707	"You have loosed lightning," said Portus Canio.	10
27	709	"Then," said Portus Canio, "the Priest-Kings will know of it".	10
27	747	At a gesture from Portus Canio Selius Arconious stopped struggling, but he stood, trembling, dark with rage, between the two who had briefly held him.	10
27	748	"Wait," cautioned Portus Canio.	10
27	764	Perhaps now, too, to some extent, did those with Portus Canio, with Fel Doron and the wagon.	10
27	833	"Have you meat with you?" cried Mirus to Portus Canio.	10
27	834	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	840	The beast called Kardok, the largest of the five monstrous creatures, looked toward the wagon and Portus Canio, and the others.	10
27	845	"Put down the bows, sheath your weapons," said one of Mirus's companions, one mounted to his left, regarding the men of Portus Canio.	10
27	847	"Leave the slave, and be on your way," said Portus Canio.	10
27	849	"Who will be first to reach for the lightning knife?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	853	Kardok's eyes blazed as he looked from the face of one of Portus Canio's men to that of another.	10
27	864	"What of your sleen?" inquired Portus Canio.	10
27	868	"I think they are domesticated sleen, trained hunting sleen," said Portus Canio.	10
27	894	He was the one who had asserted that Portus Canio's group had put the purloined gold somewhere.	10
27	921	"Tell your men not to fire," he said to Portus Canio.	10
27	922	"Be ready," said Portus Canio.	10
27	964	"Who is first amongst you?" demanded Portus Canio.	10
27	969	"Nor we ours," said Portus Canio.	10
27	973	"Do not move," said Portus Canio.	10
27	976	"That is obviously their plan," said Portus Canio.	10
27	980	"On whom would you be able to set them, and how?" inquired Portus Canio.	10
27	983	"The beasts are not armed," said Portus Canio.	10
27	985	"Why are the beasts not armed?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	990	"So then there are ten of you, and only nine of us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	992	"How many are you prepared to lose?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	994	"Then discard your weapons," said Portus Canio.	10
27	996	"There are no locked positions here," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1009	The other riders laughed, but did not take their eyes from the men of Portus Canio.	10
27	1012	Portus Canio lifted his gaze a fraction.	10
27	1015	"Tarnsmen," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1020	"Take cover!" shouted Portus Canio.	10
27	1056	She heard Portus Canio say, "They will come again".	10
27	1068	"They will come again, some on foot," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1073	"Two will no longer draw the bow," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1075	"I, too," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1077	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1079	"How many quarrels are there left?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	1081	"Then we are finished," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1087	"Attend to it," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1096	"Load the bow," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1142	"You were with us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1154	"It is gone, sped," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1157	"Two were with our party," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1162	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1166	"And then you might never see them again?" "Perhaps not," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1168	"And did your plan unfold as you had anticipated?" "Not entirely," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1171	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1173	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1175	"There is such a thing as honor," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1177	"Even if they should make away with it, or the others to whom they impart information," said Portus Canio, "it does not much matter, really.	10
27	1180	"I have a Home Stone," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1183	"Doubtless they scout in patterns," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1503	"They are doubtless discharging some men," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1506	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1534	The spokesman then regarded Portus Canio.	10
27	1537	"I am sure of that," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1562	"I do not think they would forget her," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1566	"I do not think, in any event, I would break into a run in the vicinity of sleen," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1574	"The tarns are aflight," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1581	"The soldiers will be Cosian regulars," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1585	"We may yet owe our lives to our enemies," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1681	Selius Arconious, with Fel Doron, and Portus Canio, slowly, upright, wearily, approached the wagon.	10
27	1702	She had seen him before, at the tarnloft of Portus Canio, when in the coffle and elsewhere.	10
27	1719	"I am," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1721	"You have strange pets," he said to Portus Canio.	10
27	1722	"They are not mine, and they are not pets," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1732	"Some of these men," said the subcaptain, indicating Portus Canio, Fel Doron and their other fellow, "are escaped prisoners, and two of them clearly conspirators against Cos.	10
27	1744	"Yes," said Portus Canio, "but she was later purchased from Cos, in the festival market outside Brundisium, openly and honestly purchased".	10
27	1775	"There were six such devices," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1778	"Six," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1791	"One such device must be still missing," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1813	Tersius Major surveyed Portus Canio and his party.	10
27	1814	"We meet again," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1817	"You are less than an urt of Ar," said Portus Canio, "for you have betrayed your Home Stone".	10
27	1838	"It is lost, doubtless somewhere in the grass!" Tersius Major's eyes went from face to face, from Portus Canio, to Fel Doron, to Selius Arconious, to their other fellow, and thence to the kneeling spokesman, to the sleenmaster, to Mirus, to the wounded man.	10
27	1911	He pointed to Portus Canio.	10
27	1952	"Something is out there," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1975	"Do they seem harmless to you?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	1977	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1980	Portus Canio shrugged.	10
27	2004	"If I were you," said Portus Canio to the officer, "I would kill, or secure, the beasts".	10
27	2011	"He is communicating with his fellows," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2016	"They are not coming back," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2018	"What do you know of the robbery of the paymaster's trove, the fee to be disbursed to regulars and mercenaries in Ar?" "Very little," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2023	"I do know," said Portus Canio, "that you will not now be able to recover the gold".	10
27	2027	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2029	"Why?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	2031	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2033	"Because of honor," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2035	"That does not surprise me," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2037	"Who knows?" said Portus Canio.	10
27	2039	"Who knows?" said Portus Canio.	10
27	2042	"If I were you I would withdraw," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2066	"There were six such weapons," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2097	"You are a brave man," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2098	Portus Canio was kneeling beside the soldier who had tumbled from the wagon.	10
27	2099	"He is dead," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2115	"Consider the penetration," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2117	"I think so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2119	"Perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2121	"Perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2123	"Now, yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2125	"That I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2128	Portus Canio looked out, over the grasslands, noncommittally.	10
27	2130	"Afoot?" inquired Portus Canio.	10
27	2139	He then turned to Portus Canio.	10
27	2141	Portus Canio shrugged.	10
27	2298	"Steady, steady!" said Portus Canio to Selius Arconious.	10
27	2412	Portus Canio, and his fellows, Fel Doron and Loquatus, had seemed to take little interest, little more than if someone had put someone else's small, silken she-sleen through her paces.	10
27	2622	"Who?" "A warrior, perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2658	"Sir!" called Portus Canio.	10
27	2660	"With all due respect, sir," said Portus Canio, "if you would save yourself, and your men, I would free us, and take your leave.	10
27	2667	"If you slay us," said Portus Canio, "I do not think you will reach Brundisium alive".	10
27	2670	Now you would have me return without even prisoners for interrogation?" "For torture, you mean," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2672	"We are not slaves," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2675	"You do not know the truth?" "None of us do, now," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2677	"I do not know what it could be," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2679	"I do not think so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2711	Portus Canio shrugged.	10
27	2774	"If you are finished with us," said Portus Canio, "free us, and we will harness the tharlarion and move on, with the wagon".	10
27	2776	"Free us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2778	"Consider the matter," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2787	"Perhaps," said Portus Canio, "you never saw us".	10
27	2789	"Bandits," said Portus Canio.	10
27	2827	Meanwhile Portus Canio, freed of his bonds, had risen awkwardly to his feet, rubbing his wrists.	10
27	2832	Some weapons, which had been those of Portus Canio and his fellows, were put on the grass, near the wagon.	10
27	2835	Portus Canio regarded Tersius Major.	10
27	2846	"Coward!" The officer turned to Portus Canio and his fellows, who were backing the tharlarion toward the wagon, to hitch it in place.	10
27	2895	"And spare me the prattle about weapons, forbiddings, laws, Priest-Kings and such! I am not a child!" Fel Doron would have moved toward Mirus, but he was warned back by Portus Canio.	10
27	2989	Portus Canio and his fellows leaped toward the weapons near the wagon.	10
27	3029	Portus Canio, bloody, hastened in this moment to Selius Arconious and slashed apart the bonds that bound him.	10
27	3041	The soldiers now, and Portus Canio, and Fel Doron, had gathered together, in one place, armed.	10
27	3047	"He should have remained in the camp," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3049	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3053	Portus Canio gestured to the two beasts, some yards across the camp.	10
27	3064	"Go, go!" shouted Portus Canio to the two beasts.	10
27	3070	"They can understand," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3075	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3077	"No peace," called Portus Canio.	10
27	3079	It was for her, at least in part, Ellen knew, that they, the spokesman and his men, and Kardok and his beasts, had originally followed Portus Canio and the other fugitives from the Brundisium camp.	10
27	3106	"I am a slave! I am a mere slave!" "Go!" cried Portus Canio, again waving toward the grasslands.	10
27	3108	"Go!" reiterated Portus Canio.	10
27	3128	The officer held out his hand to Portus Canio.	10
27	3130	Portus Canio unhesitantly grasped his hand.	10
27	3151	"If you have friends out there," said the officer to Portus Canio, "I assume they will let us pass".	10
27	3152	"Now," smiled Portus Canio.	10
27	3154	"I do not think you will see them," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3159	"You are welcome to come with us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3164	Portus Canio hastened to the officer.	10
27	3169	Portus Canio closed the eyes of the officer.	10
27	3171	"That is the last of the lightning," said Portus Canio, looking up.	10
27	3173	Portus Canio rose up, and took a step toward Tersius Major.	10
27	3174	Frenziedly, Tersius Major pulled the trigger again and again, full at the chest of Portus Canio.	10
27	3176	"There is no more lightning," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3184	Portus Canio returned to where the officer had fallen.	10
27	3191	"And then?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	3195	"Return to Brundisium," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3197	"It would be well to leave this area," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3241	"How came this to the camp?" inquired Portus Canio.	10
27	3243	"We will feast this night," said Portus Canio, looking out, over the grasses.	10
27	3250	"Then come and feast with us," invited Portus Canio, softly, his voice like a sheathed dagger.	10
27	3262	"I will prepare the beast for the fire," said Portus Canio, drawing out his knife.	10
27	3266	Selius Arconious nodded, watching the work of Portus Canio.	10
27	3267	Ellen did not watch Canio's work.	10
27	3286	"You will cook," said Portus Canio, looking up from his work.	10
27	3304	Too, of course, she had cooked in the tarn lofts of Portus Canio, for himself and his men.	10
27	3315	Within the Ahn the slave was attending to the meat, which had been cut by Portus Canio.	10
27	3319	This had been decided by Portus Canio, after her third trip back to the camp.	10
27	3323	When the meat was done, she would not touch it, of course, but it was removed from the cooking rods and cut by Portus Canio, who distributed it, to Fel Doron, and Selius Arconious, and Mirus, who took some to his wounded fellow.	10
27	3324	Portus Canio, Fel Doron and Selius Arconious sat cross-legged about the fire.	10
27	3484	At this juncture Portus Canio and Fel Doron, wiping their hands on their thighs, rose, too, and approached Tersius Major, crouching down amongst the weapons, on his knoll, in the descending darkness.	10
27	3485	"Give me drink, give me food, old friend," said Tersius Major to Portus Canio.	10
27	3486	"Come down, old friend," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3488	"For the love of Priest-Kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3492	"Have no fear," then said Portus Canio, angrily, hesitating, then stepping back, "I will not cross the circle of forbidden weapons".	10
27	3498	"I think we had best leave this place," said Portus Canio, uneasily.	10
27	3506	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3512	"Perhaps there is more than one way in which Priest-Kings speak," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3517	Portus Canio and Mirus placed the wounded man in the wagon bed.	10
27	3530	"Then join us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3543	"One does not know," said Portus Canio.	10
28	19	She heard, from the side, Portus Canio turn in his sleep.	10
28	112	Portus Canio and Fel Doron scarcely looked upon her.	10
28	137	Fel Doron rushed forward, Portus Canio had thrown off his blankets.	10
28	140	"Bosk, Bosk of Port Kar!" cried Portus Canio.	10
28	166	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
28	172	"They," said Portus Canio.	10
28	174	"We owe you our lives," said Portus Canio, "on more than one occasion".	10
28	178	"You have drifted with us, have you not?" asked Portus Canio.	10
28	190	"The beasts, and their allies," said Portus Canio, addressing himself to Bosk of Port Kar and Marcus of Ar's Station, "followed us, at least in part, it seems, to obtain and destroy this slave".	10
28	205	"I am not clear as to the nature of their interest in the slave," said Portus Canio.	10
28	247	"I vouch for them," said Portus Canio.	10
28	256	"But we did not know," said Portus Canio.	10
28	260	"We shortened our watches accordingly, to maximize alertness," said Portus Canio.	10
28	271	"How are things in Ar?" asked Portus Canio.	10
28	286	"Torture and the impaling stake for her," said Portus Canio.	10
28	300	"Surely you will trek with us to Ar," said Portus Canio.	10
28	304	"But surely," said Portus Canio, "we may share our breakfast with you?" "That will please us," said Bosk of Port Kar.	10
28	321	"Well met!" said Portus Canio, gratefully.	10
28	328	Then, with the help of Portus Canio and Selius Arconious, his weak fellow was placed on the travois.	10
28	333	"Mirus, my friend," said Portus Canio.	10
28	337	Portus Canio, Fel Doron near him, drew from his pouch a heavy, shapeless object of metal, which seemed as though it had been deformed, perhaps twisted, bent in upon itself, and then fused, melted, in great heat".	10
28	343	"No fellow of mine, he," said Portus Canio.	10
28	346	"It would seem so," said Portus Canio.	10
28	350	"Hold this," said Portus Canio, extending his hand, the weighty, shapeless object within it.	10
28	353	"Feel the weight," said Portus Canio.	10
28	355	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
28	360	So saying, Portus Canio took back the bit of fused, shapeless metal.	10
28	362	"Not now," said Portus Canio.	10
28	370	"There is this," said Portus Canio, lifting the shapeless mass of fused, melted metal.	10
28	377	"That is certainly possible," agreed Portus Canio.	10
28	380	"Even so," smiled Portus Canio, "I would advise you to keep their laws".	10
28	382	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
28	385	"If they do exist, perhaps in the Sardar Mountains, as many claim," said Portus Canio, "I think it is clear that we have little to fear from them, indeed far less to fear from them than from the caste of Initiates, which claims to speak in their name.	10
28	387	"You suggest that they are rational? That they fear human technology?" "Perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
28	389	"One does not suppose otherwise," said Portus Canio.	10
28	392	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
28	395	"Perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
28	398	"That is quite possible," said Portus Canio.	10
28	401	"In eight or ten days," said Portus Canio to Mirus, "you might reach the coast, and Brundisium".	10
29	64	Portus Canio and Fel Doron are even now unhitching the tharlarion and preparing a camp".	10
29	144	Portus Canio and Fel Doron were in the vicinity.	10
29	149	"It looks like an excellent buy," said Portus Canio.	10
29	156	"You were right," said Portus Canio.	10
29	189	"But doubtless a whipping would do some of them a great deal of good," said Portus Canio.	10
29	218	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
29	286	"She was haughty!" "Surely that is a small thing," said Portus Canio, "a squabble amongst slave girls, nothing with which masters need concern themselves".	10
29	289	"That leaves, of course, many other shortcomings," said Portus Canio.	10
29	309	"Strive to be worthy of being cared for," said Portus Canio.	10
29	328	"It is you who are the barbarian," said Portus Canio, matter-of-factly.	10
29	330	"Thus," said Portus Canio, "you are a barbarian".	10
29	334	"In more than that sense," said Portus Canio.	10
29	338	"You speak of yourself as civilized," said Portus Canio, "say, in contradistinction, from Goreans?" "Yes," said Ellen, a little uncertainly.	10
29	340	"Your world is civilized?" asked Portus Canio.	10
29	342	"On the trail, from time to time," said Portus Canio, "Mirus and I whiled away many a pleasant Ahn in conversation".	10
29	350	"I am not at all certain that your world is civilized," said Portus Canio.	10
29	360	"Our world," said Portus Canio, "is a green world, a fresh, clean, honest world.	10
30	2	About the table, cross-legged, sat Selius Arconious, her master, Portus Canio, Fel Doron, Bosk of Port Kar, and Marcus, of Ar's Station.	10
30	118	She saw Portus Canio taking a sip of the wine she had poured.	10
30	181	Before dawn, the next day, Portus Canio came to her, sponged her back, and her body, with a damp rag, cooling her and cleaning her, and freed her.	10