| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 266 |
Tuka, I knew, hated Elizabeth, and Elizabeth, I knew, reciprocated the emotion with vehemence. |
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| 11 | 273 |
"You," said Kamchak, glaring at Elizabeth, "you stupid little barbarian—you cannot even dance!" Elizabeth looked down, confused, rather shamed. |
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| 12 | 51 |
The two girls were there, and Aphris was kneeling behind Elizabeth, combing Elizabeth's hair. |
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| 23 | 206 |
Aphris had, according to the woman, fallen into the hands of the Paravaci who had looted Kamchak's wagon; Elizabeth's fate she did not know; I gathered, of course, from the fact that Elizabeth had been sent to another wagon that Kamchak had sold her. |
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| 27 | 18 |
Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t... |
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| 28 | 1 |
Elizabeth and I Depart from the Wagon Peoples Tuka, the slave girl, did not fare well at the hands of Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 6 | 50 |
"My name is Elizabeth Cardwell," she said. |
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| 6 | 93 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, I decided, would indeed bring a high price. |
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| 6 | 108 |
"Tell them my name is Elizabeth Cardwell," she said. |
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| 6 | 161 |
He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine; ... |
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| 6 | 163 |
Dazed, exhausted, covered with sweat, dust on her face and legs, wine on her body, Elizabeth Cardwell, her wrists thonged behind her and her throat bound to a lance, stood captive before Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
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| 6 | 175 |
Elizabeth Cardwell had learned her first Gorean. |
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| 7 | 48 |
The man-at-arms placed Elizabeth Cardwell before us, and Kutaituchik, and drew away the pelt of the scarlet larl. |
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| 7 | 49 |
Elizabeth Cardwell had been cleaned and her hair combed. |
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| 7 | 53 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, though she did not know it, knelt before us in the position of the Pleasure Slave. |
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| 7 | 67 |
The interrogation of Elizabeth Cardwell took hours. |
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| 7 | 72 |
During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur... |
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| 7 | 86 |
It seemed to me, from what I had learned, that there was no particular reason why Elizabeth Cardwell, and not one of Earth's countless others, had been selected to wear the message collar. |
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| 7 | 110 |
Elizabeth had looked, tears almost in her eyes, at the department head, but he seemed suddenly to her soft, pudgy, distant, sweating, nothing. |
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| 7 | 112 |
Elizabeth faced the tall, strange man. |
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| 7 | 124 |
And Elizabeth Cardwell walked proudly, angrily, to the far side of the room, wheeled there, faced the man, and approached him, eyes taunting, a smile of contempt playing about her lips. |
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| 7 | 137 |
"I'm Elizabeth Cardwell," she had cried. |
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| 7 | 147 |
But how was it that Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, wore a Turian message collar? Kamchak drew the quiva from his belt and approached the girl. |
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| 7 | 201 |
"Do you think Priest-Kings would use a Turian message collar?" He pointed his broad finger at Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 7 | 225 |
Kutaituchik, Kamchak and I then regarded Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 7 | 236 |
With horror Elizabeth Cardwell lifted her head from the pelt and regarded her captors. |
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| 7 | 252 |
"Yes," wept Elizabeth Cardwell, "yes—I beg to be a slave girl". |
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| 7 | 253 |
Perhaps in that moment Elizabeth Cardwell recalled the strange man, so fearsome, gray of face with eyes like glass, who had so examined her on Earth, before whom she had stood as though on a block, unknowingly being examined for her fitness to bear the message collar of Turia. |
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| 7 | 261 |
Elizabeth Cardwell took the meat in her two hands, confined before her by slave bracelets and the chain of the Sirik, and, bending her head, the hair falling forward, ate it. |
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| 8 | 58 |
I heard Elizabeth Cardwell's cry of joy as she leaped into the air, clumsy in the furs, clapping her hands. |
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| 8 | 72 |
Elizabeth cried out again, with pleasure, for she was of the wagon of Kamchak and Tarl Cabot. |
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| 8 | 77 |
"Forgive me, Master," said Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 8 | 79 |
I was pleased with how well, in the past months, Elizabeth had done with the language. |
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| 8 | 80 |
Of course, Kamchak had rented three Turian girls, slaves, to train her; they had done so, binding her wrists and leading her about the wagons, teaching her the words for things, beating her with switches when she made mistakes; Elizabeth had learned quickly. |
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| 8 | 82 |
It had been hard for Elizabeth Cardwell, particularly the first weeks. |
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| 8 | 87 |
Kamchak, that night, chained Elizabeth Cardwell in his wagon, rather than beneath it to the wheel, running a short length of chain from a slave ring set in the floor of the wagon box to the collar of her Sirik. |
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| 8 | 104 |
He then took Elizabeth Cardwell in his left arm and with his right hand gave her the drink. |
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| 8 | 108 |
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri... |
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| 8 | 109 |
In the morning I awakened to find Elizabeth sitting, red-eyed, at the side of the wagon, leaning back against one of the poles that supported the wagon hides, wrapped in the pelt of the red larl. |
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| 8 | 117 |
I saw now, however, that Elizabeth Cardwell was strong, that she would not go mad, that she was determined to live. |
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| 8 | 123 |
When Kamchak rolled out of his furs Elizabeth, involuntarily, shrank back, until the pole would permit her to withdraw no further. |
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| 8 | 135 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, knew nothing of these things. |
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| 8 | 138 |
Kamchak snapped his fingers and pointed to the rug, Elizabeth then knelt to him, clutching the pelt about her, and put her head to his feet. |
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| 8 | 140 |
To my surprise Kamchak, for no reason that he explained to me, did not clothe Elizabeth Cardwell Kajir, much to the irritation of other slave girls about the camp. |
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| 8 | 145 |
I gathered that girls such as Elizabeth Cardwell, used to buying machine-made, presewn garments on Earth, were not as skilled as they might be in certain of the homely crafts which used to be associated with homemaking, crafts which might, upon occasion, it seemed, come in handy. |
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| 8 | 149 |
"But it was the length of the leather dresses of the Tuchuk women," Elizabeth had dared to protest. |
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| 8 | 174 |
Elizabeth Cardwell never again brought a half-filled dung sack to the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
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| 8 | 204 |
To my amazement Elizabeth Cardwell, too, seemed rather pleased with the whole thing, though for what reason I could scarcely understand. |
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| 8 | 263 |
Indeed, it had been from that warrior that Kamchak had rented the girls who had dragged Elizabeth Cardwell about the wagons, teaching her Gorean with thong and switch. |
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| 8 | 267 |
Tuka, in the matter of teaching Elizabeth the language, had been especially cruel. |
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| 8 | 268 |
Elizabeth, bound, could not resist and did she try, Tuka's companions, the others of her wagon, would leap upon her with their switches flailing. |
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| 8 | 270 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, at least until now, had escaped, as Tuka had not, the brand, the nose ring and collar. |
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| 8 | 271 |
Elizabeth was clearly some sort of favorite in her wagon. |
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| 8 | 274 |
Lastly, but perhaps not least, Elizabeth Cardwell had been given for her garment the pelt of a larl, while she, Tuka, must go about the camp like all the others, clad Kajir. |
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| 8 | 280 |
She would run well, hating Elizabeth or not. |
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| 8 | 283 |
He pointed his lance to Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 8 | 285 |
Elizabeth did so and stood before us in the pelt of the larl, with the other girls. |
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| 8 | 294 |
Tuchuk girls, Elizabeth and Tuka, would run for the Kassars; the two Kassar girls would run for Kamchak and myself; naturally each slave does her best for her master, attempting to evade his competitor. |
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| 8 | 347 |
At a gesture from Kamchak Elizabeth Cardwell stepped into the circle of the whip. |
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| 8 | 355 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, barefoot, in the larl's pelt, streaked for the black lance in the distance. |
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| 8 | 361 |
At the count of fifteen, with incredible speed, Albrecht, bola now whirling, spurred silently after the fleeing Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 8 | 363 |
It was hardly more than five or six beats, it seemed, before Elizabeth, her wrists lashed cruelly to her ankles, was thrown to the grass at the judge's feet. |
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| 8 | 366 |
Weeping Elizabeth jerked and pulled at the thongs restraining her, helpless. |
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| 8 | 369 |
Elizabeth moaned. |
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| 8 | 374 |
Elizabeth was silent and, fighting her tears, lay quietly waiting to be freed. |
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| 8 | 462 |
Albrecht and Conrad had come for a simple purpose, to best a Tuchuk and, in the process, pick up a girl or two; Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, was the only one we had on hand. |
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| 8 | 480 |
Even if by good fortune I managed to tie Albrecht, Elizabeth would still belong to the Kassars, for Conrad had a clear win over Kamchak. |
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| 8 | 513 |
Elizabeth Cardwell was leaping up and down clapping her hands. |
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| 8 | 528 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, however, to my surprise, seemed furious. |
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| 8 | 558 |
"I do not want to stand for him!" cried out Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 8 | 560 |
Elizabeth Cardwell took her position, standing sideways, the tospit held delicately between her teeth. |
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| 8 | 577 |
Elizabeth, unmoving, faced me, some fifty yards away. |
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| 8 | 582 |
Elizabeth stood facing me, not frightened, but seemingly rather put upon. |
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| 8 | 587 |
A cry went up from the crowd as I passed Elizabeth, the tospit on the point of the lance. |
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| 8 | 591 |
I turned to see Elizabeth waver, and almost faint, but she did not do so. |
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| 8 | 611 |
The two girls, while Elizabeth Cardwell looked on angrily, knelt before Kamchak and myself, lowering their heads, lifting and extending their arms, wrists crossed. |
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| 8 | 617 |
"I do not know what we need with all these slaves," Elizabeth Cardwell was saying. |
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| 8 | 619 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, for some reason, looked at me in fury, rather than Kamchak. |
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| 8 | 624 |
Elizabeth stifled a cry of rage. |
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| 9 | 94 |
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp... |
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| 9 | 97 |
"She has fat ankles," Elizabeth Cardwell had observed. |
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| 9 | 99 |
"If you like fat ankles," Elizabeth had said, turning about, perhaps inadvertently revealing the delightful slimness of her own ankles, and leaving the wagon. |
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| 9 | 144 |
Elizabeth Cardwell's being permitted the pelt of the red larl was, as you have doubtless understood, unusual amongst the wagons. |
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| 10 | 15 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, barefoot, in the larl's pelt, walked beside Kamchak's stirrup. |
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| 10 | 106 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, who had been fixing the fire in the wagon, had been startled when I had returned without Dina, but had not dared to ask what had been done with her. |
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| 10 | 110 |
Elizabeth regarded me with horror. |
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| 10 | 111 |
"She was a person—" said Elizabeth, "—a human person—" "No!" said Kamchak, giving her head a shake. |
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| 10 | 112 |
"An animal! A slave!" Then he added, giving her head another shake, "Like yourself!" Elizabeth looked at him with dismay. |
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| 10 | 114 |
Elizabeth's face suddenly seemed terrified. |
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| 10 | 118 |
Now, again, Elizabeth, visibly shaken, ill, realized that she might, should it please Kamchak's whims, be sold or exchanged with the same ease as a saddle or a hunting sleen. |
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| 10 | 125 |
Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ... |
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| 10 | 130 |
No, it was best that Elizabeth Cardwell believe I had callously sold the lovely Dina of Turia. |
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| 10 | 133 |
Elizabeth shook with terror and put her head to the rug at Kamchak's feet. |
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| 10 | 143 |
Elizabeth said nothing, her head down. |
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| 10 | 227 |
Elizabeth Cardwell screamed, throwing her hands before her face. |
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| 10 | 230 |
I wheeled the kaiila, looking for Elizabeth Cardwell, who, afoot, would be slain almost before the tharlarion had crossed the lines of the stakes. |
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| 10 | 238 |
Elizabeth Cardwell's knees seemed suddenly weak but she staggered back to us. |
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| 10 | 243 |
Elizabeth looked up at us, puzzled. |
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| 11 | 114 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, unbound, had already taken her position on the other side of Kamchak's kaiila, beside his right stirrup. |
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| 11 | 129 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, on the other hand, I was pleased to see, ran well, breathing evenly, showing few signs of fatigue. |
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| 11 | 140 |
Elizabeth Cardwell was removing the thong from the girl's neck and unbinding her wrists. |
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| 11 | 144 |
She turned her eyes on Elizabeth, whom she seemed to see then for the first time. |
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| 11 | 153 |
I had wondered why Kamchak had not treated Elizabeth Cardwell as any other enslaved wench of Tuchuks. |
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| 11 | 163 |
"Please," said Elizabeth, "come away". |
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| 11 | 166 |
But then, head in the air, she deigned to accompany Elizabeth from where we stood. |
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| 11 | 172 |
She turned in fury and followed Elizabeth Cardwell away. |
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| 11 | 200 |
Elizabeth had the meat roasted, though it was now considerably overdone. |
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| 11 | 208 |
"Is anything wrong?" asked Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 11 | 218 |
"Yes," said Elizabeth firmly. |
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| 11 | 222 |
She cast an angry look at Elizabeth. |
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| 11 | 227 |
"You were hours late," said Elizabeth. |
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| 11 | 230 |
"I shall roast fresh meat," said Elizabeth, getting up, and she did so. |
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| 11 | 252 |
Elizabeth cast a grateful look at him. |
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| 11 | 256 |
"Master," added Elizabeth, with a withering look at Aphris, who smiled. |
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| 11 | 261 |
"They were sold," Elizabeth informed Aphris. |
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| 11 | 264 |
"I do not suppose I shall be fortunate enough to be sold?" "She would probably bring a high price," pointed out Elizabeth, hopefully. |
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| 11 | 272 |
Elizabeth laughed and clapped her hands. |
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| 11 | 284 |
Elizabeth was looking at me. |
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| 11 | 290 |
"The Little Barbarian does not wish to become second girl in the wagon!" He gave Elizabeth's head a rough, affectionate shake. |
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| 11 | 304 |
"This slave," she said, indicating Elizabeth, "would not give me anything to eat". |
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| 11 | 305 |
"Kamchak must eat first, Slave," responded Elizabeth. |
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| 11 | 314 |
Elizabeth had leaped up and so had I. |
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| 11 | 319 |
I also sat down, and so, too, did Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 11 | 323 |
He seemed satisfied that the wound was not serious, and picked up the piece of meat which he had dropped, which he tossed to Elizabeth, who, in silence, ate it. |
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| 11 | 327 |
"Bring wine," he said to Elizabeth, who, her mouth filled with meat, went and fetched a small skin of wine and a cup, which she filled for him. |
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| 11 | 357 |
Suddenly Elizabeth Cardwell said, perhaps unwisely, "You are cruel". |
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| 11 | 378 |
When the girl had finished and Elizabeth had given her a dipper of water from the leather bucket that hung near the door, Aphris extended her wrists to Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 15 |
In Turia I had learned nothing, unfortunately, of the answers to the mystery of the message collar—or to the appearance of Miss Elizabeth Cardwell on the southern plains of Gor. |
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| 12 | 53 |
The pelt of the larl which Elizabeth wore had been freshly brushed. |
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| 12 | 58 |
I could hear them move as she combed Elizabeth's hair. |
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| 12 | 61 |
"Ow!" cried Elizabeth as Aphris' comb apparently suddenly caught in a snarl in her hair. |
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| 12 | 64 |
Elizabeth turned her head over her shoulder. |
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| 12 | 67 |
The comb caught in Elizabeth's hair again and she cried out. |
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| 12 | 69 |
"Comb my hair, Slave," said Elizabeth, turning away. |
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| 12 | 76 |
"Perhaps I should not go," Elizabeth was saying, "I would feel too sorry for the poor girl". |
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| 12 | 79 |
I didn't really feel like telling Elizabeth that no one ever feels sorry for a wench from Port Kar. |
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| 12 | 85 |
Elizabeth and Aphris leaped up to tend the pot outside. |
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| 12 | 134 |
Elizabeth and Aphris entered, carrying the kettle between them, which they sat on the brass and copper grating over the fire bowl in the wagon. |
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| 12 | 135 |
"Go ahead and ask him," prompted Elizabeth, "Slave". |
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| 12 | 138 |
After we had eaten and the girls had eaten with us, there not being that night much time for observing the amenities, Elizabeth poked Aphris, "Ask him," she said. |
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| 12 | 140 |
Elizabeth looked at Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 143 |
"Aphris," said Elizabeth firmly. |
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| 12 | 145 |
"Give him Ka-la-na wine," prompted Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 162 |
"If you do not ask him, I shall," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 164 |
"She found something today," said Elizabeth, "that someone had thrown away". |
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| 12 | 184 |
Elizabeth clapped her hands with pleasure and began to consider the camisk. |
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| 12 | 187 |
Then, delighted, Aphris, assisted by Elizabeth Cardwell, donned the yellow camisk. |
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| 12 | 199 |
"Of course," she laughed, "for a Turian slave!" "We will be late for the performance," said Elizabeth, "if we do not hurry". |
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| 12 | 201 |
"No," said Elizabeth, "I have decided to come". |
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| 12 | 233 |
He had also parked Aphris on his right and Elizabeth on his left. |
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| 12 | 234 |
I bit out the cork in the paga and passed it past Elizabeth to Kamchak, as courtesy demanded. |
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| 12 | 235 |
About a third of the bottle was missing when Elizabeth, looking faint at having smelled the beverage, returned it to me. |
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| 12 | 238 |
In a right-handed girl, such as either Aphris or Elizabeth, it locks on the right wrist and left ankle. |
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| 12 | 245 |
Elizabeth Cardwell also had her head up, kneeling very straight, obviously not unconscious that she herself was the object of a look or two. |
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| 12 | 258 |
That seemed to be an experience which she, no more than Elizabeth Cardwell, was not eager to repeat. |
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| 12 | 260 |
We had slept late that day and finally when Kamchak managed to be up and around, after a late breakfast served rather slowly by Elizabeth, and had recollected Aphris and had opened the end of her sleeping quarters and she had crawled out backward and had begged, head to boot, to be allowed to draw w... |
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| 12 | 269 |
This startled me, and startled Elizabeth as well. |
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| 12 | 273 |
Suddenly Elizabeth was kneeling terribly straight, looking ahead, breathing very quickly. |
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| 12 | 284 |
I turned to face Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 298 |
Kamchak reached across Elizabeth and dragged the paga bottle out of my hand. |
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| 12 | 304 |
"Why?" I again asked Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 305 |
But Elizabeth, with her free left hand had seized the paga bottle from Kamchak, and, to his amazement, had thrown back her head and taken, without realizing the full import of her action, about five lusty, guzzling swallows of paga. |
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| 12 | 315 |
"Yes," said Elizabeth, "better than Aphris". |
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| 12 | 317 |
Elizabeth looked up at me. |
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| 12 | 319 |
"Some men might like a barbarian girl," Elizabeth said. |
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| 12 | 320 |
I hoisted Elizabeth back up on her knees. |
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| 12 | 324 |
"Be quiet, Slave," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 334 |
"Nonsense," said Elizabeth, sleepily. |
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| 12 | 336 |
"You only want to be First Girl," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 339 |
Elizabeth lifted her head from my shoulder and regarded me. |
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| 12 | 341 |
"My name is Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, Mr. |
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| 12 | 351 |
"Nonsense," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 354 |
"No," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 356 |
"Will the performance start soon?" asked Elizabeth of Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 358 |
"I do not know," said Elizabeth, "if I should watch". |
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| 12 | 360 |
"I suppose," said Elizabeth, "I could hop all the way on one foot". |
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| 12 | 369 |
"No," said Elizabeth, "I will stay". |
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| 12 | 371 |
"Yes," said Elizabeth, glowering, "if Master permits". |
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| 12 | 373 |
"Thank you, Master," said Elizabeth politely, and once more put her head on my shoulder. |
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| 12 | 382 |
I heard Kamchak hush up Aphris of Turia and he gave Elizabeth a poke in the ribs that she might bestir herself. |
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| 12 | 389 |
Even Elizabeth had lifted her head now from my shoulder and was rising on her knees a bit for a clearer view. |
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| 12 | 411 |
I saw that Aphris and Elizabeth were watching fascinated. |
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| 12 | 425 |
"I never knew a woman," said Elizabeth, her eyes blazing, showing few signs of the paga, "could be so beautiful!" "She was marvelous," I said. |
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| 12 | 433 |
At the exit he stopped briefly and, Aphris over his shoulder, turned and faced Elizabeth and myself. |
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| 12 | 437 |
Elizabeth Cardwell was staring after him. |
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| 12 | 483 |
I could not think of her in my arms—nor of her ignorant, timid lips on mine—for she was always and would remain only the unfortunate Elizabeth Cardwell, the innocent and unwitting victim of an inexplicable translocation and an unexpected, unjust reduction to shameful bondage. |
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| 12 | 494 |
I was, however, confused about Elizabeth, for it seemed to me she had behaved strangely this night. |
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| 12 | 497 |
Elizabeth had reason to fear. |
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| 12 | 502 |
Moreover, not every man wants to own an untrained barbarian slave, for such, even if given to them, must be fed—and, this spring, as I could tell from walking about the camp, there was no shortage of girls, freshly collared and branded perhaps, untrained perhaps, but yet, and most importantly... |
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| 13 | 1 |
The Attack In the morning, to my dismay, Elizabeth Cardwell was not to be found. |
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| 13 | 7 |
Kamchak was holding Elizabeth's bedding—a rep-cloth blanket—for them to smell. |
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| 13 | 19 |
I spied Elizabeth Cardwell approaching the wagon, two leather water buckets fastened to a wooden yoke she carried over her shoulders. |
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| 13 | 21 |
Aphris cried out with delight and ran to Elizabeth, to my astonishment, to kiss her and help with the water. |
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| 13 | 23 |
Elizabeth lifted her head innocently and gazed at him frankly. |
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| 13 | 28 |
Elizabeth did not so much as look at me. |
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| 13 | 36 |
Elizabeth and Aphris had gone into the wagon. |
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| 13 | 51 |
By this time Elizabeth had returned with the whip and bracelets, and had handed them to Kamchak. |
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| 13 | 59 |
"I was afraid," said Elizabeth. |
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| 13 | 76 |
Elizabeth looked at him. |
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| 13 | 83 |
Elizabeth suddenly cried out throwing her head to one side. |
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| 13 | 87 |
"Did you not see the secret blood of her?—That she is eager and ready—that she is fit prize for the steel of a master—that she is female, and," he added, "slave?" "No!" cried Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 13 | 107 |
He would do no more to Elizabeth Cardwell than was commonly done to female slaves among the wagons, even those who had never dared to speak back or disobey in the least particular. |
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| 13 | 108 |
Elizabeth, in her way, was fortunate. |
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| 13 | 111 |
I saw Aphris sneaking to the cage to bring Elizabeth a dipper of water. |
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| 13 | 138 |
I had not mentioned the matter of the Paravaci quiva which had almost struck me last night, having been in the morning disturbed about the disappearance of Elizabeth Cardwell and in the afternoon busy following Kamchak about in his rounds. |
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| 13 | 192 |
Such tonight, or on another night, would be the lovely Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 13 | 204 |
On the other hand, Kamchak could say the sound I have represented as "vella" quite easily and would upon occasion use this as Elizabeth's name. |
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| 14 | 17 |
Kamchak took her roughly by the arm and shoved her stumbling toward the sleen cage where, holding the bars, frightened, knelt Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 14 | 18 |
Kamchak unlocked the cage and thrust Aphris inside with Elizabeth. |
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| 15 | 63 |
When he returned that night from the wagon of Kutaituchik to his own wagon he strode angrily to the sleen cage where he had confined Aphris with Elizabeth during the putative attack. |
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| 15 | 71 |
Roughly Kamchak took her by the arm and thrust her into the sleen cage beside the miserable Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 15 | 85 |
Elizabeth Cardwell refused to meet my eyes, and would not so much as speak to me. |
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| 15 | 92 |
I once spoke harshly to her when I saw her cruelly poke Elizabeth Cardwell through the bars with the bosk stick. |
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| 15 | 95 |
"Where now is the pelt of the red larl, Slave?" Tuka would taunt Elizabeth, threatening her with the bosk stick. |
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| 15 | 98 |
Elizabeth endured the insults as though paying no attention, but sometimes at night I could hear her sobbing. |
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| 16 | 17 |
"Here," said Harold, pointing to a cut between two rocks, only about eight inches wide, through which from some underground source a flow of water was emerging, entering and adding to the small stream at which, some four pasangs from the wagons, Aphris and Elizabeth had often drawn water for the wag... |
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| 16 | 206 |
I immediately recalled Elizabeth's description of the man who had examined her for fitness to bear the message collar—on Earth! "I have never seen that man," said Ha-Keel. |
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| 16 | 297 |
I was confident that the man was the same as he who had brought Elizabeth Cardwell to this world—he who had seen her in New York and decided she would play her role in his perilous sport—and that thus he had at his disposal an advanced technology—certainly to the level of at lea... |
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| 23 | 204 |
There was no sign of either Aphris or Elizabeth, either about the wagon, or in the overturned, broken sleen cage in which, when I had last seen them, Kamchak had confined them. |
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| 23 | 217 |
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered; and the large, gray leathery object which I had upon occasion seen Kamchak use as a stool, that which he had once kicked across the floor for my inspe... |
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| 23 | 219 |
Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th... |
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| 24 | 12 |
I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the Tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he had sold her, an... |
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| 25 | 13 |
I did not speak, but stood dumbfounded, finding myself facing Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 25 | 25 |
Harold had said that Elizabeth Cardwell had been given by Kamchak to a warrior. |
10 |
| 25 | 78 |
"It is over now, Elizabeth," I said. |
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| 25 | 82 |
You are free, Elizabeth". |
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| 25 | 96 |
"You are free, Elizabeth". |
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| 25 | 121 |
Elizabeth looked up, the tiny ring glinting in the light of the fire bowl. |
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| 25 | 129 |
Elizabeth laughed, through her tears. |
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| 25 | 144 |
To be sure, Elizabeth Cardwell was still in Sirik. |
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| 25 | 156 |
I spun about and to my astonishment saw that Elizabeth Cardwell had arisen and stood proudly, defiantly, angrily before me, as though she might have been a freshly collared slave girl, brought in but an Ahn before, bound over the saddle of a kaiila, the fruit of a slave raid. |
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| 25 | 197 |
When I had done so, I faced her and said, "To a free woman, one who has been strong, one who has been brave, to Elizabeth Cardwell, to a woman who is both beautiful and free". |
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| 25 | 201 |
"We shall, of course," Elizabeth was saying, "have to make some different arrangements about the wagon". |
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| 25 | 208 |
Elizabeth did not wish more. |
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| 25 | 248 |
"By the Priest-Kings," I cried, "you are one woman who is looking for trouble!" Elizabeth laughed over the wine. |
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| 25 | 267 |
"Of course," said Elizabeth, "we could regard it as a division of labor of sorts". |
10 |
| 25 | 272 |
"But you can't trust slaves," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 25 | 274 |
"You nearly spilled your wine," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 25 | 276 |
Elizabeth winked at me, conspiratorially. |
10 |
| 25 | 280 |
Elizabeth knelt down a few feet from me, and took another sip of the wine. |
10 |
| 25 | 325 |
Why had he done this, truly? For me? Or for her, as well? If so, why? For what reason? Elizabeth had now finished her wine. |
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| 25 | 339 |
Suddenly I thought I understood Kamchak! He had indeed been fond of the girl! "Elizabeth," I said. |
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| 25 | 356 |
Elizabeth smiled. |
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| 25 | 363 |
"I would have little respect for the woman," said Elizabeth Cardwell, "who could utterly surrender to a man". |
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| 25 | 365 |
"Women," said Elizabeth, "are persons—surely as much as men—and their equals". |
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| 25 | 369 |
"Nonsense," said Elizabeth. |
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| 25 | 371 |
"But what," I asked, "if the laws of nature and of human blood were more basic, more primitive and essential than the conventions and teachings of society—what if these old secrets and truths, if truths they be, had been concealed or forgotten, or subverted to the requirements of a society co... |
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| 25 | 380 |
"The Tuchuk women," said Elizabeth, "have a miserable lot". |
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| 25 | 382 |
"I have never known a woman who was a Free Companion," said Elizabeth. |
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| 25 | 385 |
"I am not accustomed to thinking of myself," smiled Elizabeth, "as a mammal". |
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| 25 | 387 |
I pounded the floor of the wagon and Elizabeth jumped. |
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| 25 | 390 |
"Because," said Elizabeth, "it is not true". |
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| 25 | 392 |
"Silly!" said Elizabeth. |
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| 25 | 394 |
Elizabeth threw back her head and laughed merrily. |
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| 25 | 396 |
"And what happens to these women afterwards?" asked Elizabeth. |
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| 25 | 398 |
"No man," said Elizabeth, "including you, my dear Tarl Cabot, could bring me to such a pass". |
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| 25 | 400 |
"It is all very silly," said Elizabeth. |
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| 25 | 402 |
"That is the silliest of all!" laughed Elizabeth. |
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| 25 | 431 |
"Please, do not speak so, Elizabeth," I said. |
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| 25 | 447 |
"Beautiful Elizabeth," I said, "I can have you as neither". |
10 |
| 25 | 490 |
I looked at Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, kneeling before me, head down, clad only in the collar of a slave. |
10 |
| 25 | 497 |
"Why have you done this, Elizabeth?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 507 |
Elizabeth looked up, shyly. |
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| 25 | 536 |
Elizabeth was looking at me, smiling. |
10 |
| 25 | 749 |
Elizabeth Cardwell gasped. |
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| 25 | 797 |
"I do not want to be a slave!" But when I had touched the most intimate beauties of her she became uncontrollable, writhing, and in my arms I knew the feeling of a slave girl and such, for the moment, was the beautiful Elizabeth Cardwell, helpless and mine, female and slave. |
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| 25 | 842 |
"And you, lovely Elizabeth," said I, "wear a collar". |
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| 25 | 904 |
"And what of Miss Elizabeth Cardwell?" I inquired. |
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| 25 | 905 |
"That pretty little slave!" said Elizabeth, scornfully. |
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| 25 | 907 |
"She is not a secretary," said Elizabeth, "she is only a little Gorean slave". |
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| 25 | 908 |
"Well," said I, "what of her?" "As you may have heard," whispered the girl, "Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the nasty little wench, was forced to yield herself as a slave girl to a master". |
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| 25 | 928 |
And from time to time, during the night, each of the girls, Vella of Gor and the little barbarian, Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, begged, and were permitted, to serve the pleasure of their master. |
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| 26 | 6 |
As I had left Elizabeth Cardwell had awakened. |
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| 26 | 19 |
When I had left the wagon Elizabeth Cardwell, though she had said nothing, had been frightened. |
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| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
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| 27 | 67 |
Harold and I were there, too, and Hereena and Elizabeth. |
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| 27 | 104 |
Elizabeth had watched but she had shown no sign of anger or irritation. |
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| 27 | 105 |
"She is beautiful," said Elizabeth. |
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| 27 | 107 |
And then I looked at Elizabeth. |
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| 27 | 117 |
"I would," said Elizabeth firmly, "I am worth many tarn disks". |
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| 27 | 133 |
It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, Tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intrigues and circu... |
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| 27 | 136 |
None remained now in the court of the Ubar other than Kamchak and Aphris, Harold and Hereena, and myself and Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 27 | 180 |
Hereena and Elizabeth followed us, each, as was proper, some two paces behind. |
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| 27 | 195 |
Hereena and Elizabeth would run at our stirrups. |
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| 27 | 204 |
Aphris, as Hereena and Elizabeth, ran by the stirrup. |
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| 28 | 2 |
In the camp of the Tuchuks Elizabeth had begged that I not free her for but another hour. |
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| 28 | 8 |
I recalled how cruel she had been to Elizabeth in the long months she had been with the Tuchuks, and how she had tormented her even when she was helpless in the cage of a sleen, mocking her and poking at her with the bosk stick. |
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| 28 | 9 |
Perhaps Tuka gathered what might have been on Elizabeth's mind, for no sooner had the American girl turned toward her than she turned and fled from the wagon. |
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| 28 | 13 |
At that juncture, as I recall, Elizabeth was kneeling on top of the Turian maiden with her hands in her hair pounding her head up and down in the dirt. |
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| 28 | 14 |
Elizabeth's Tuchuk leather had been half torn from her but Tuka, who had been clothed only Kajir, had fared not even this well. |
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| 28 | 15 |
Indeed, when Elizabeth finished, Tuka wore only the Koora, the red band that ties back the hair, and this band now knotted her wrists behind her back. |
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| 28 | 16 |
Elizabeth then tied a thong in Tuka's nose ring and dragged her to the creek, where she might find a switch. |
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| 28 | 19 |
At last, panting, bleeding here and there, discolored in places, half-naked, triumphant, Elizabeth Cardwell returned to my side, where she knelt as a humble, obedient slave girl. |
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| 28 | 24 |
Elizabeth did not seem affrighted to be astride the tarn. |
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| 28 | 64 |
I recalled what I took to be the skepticism of Kamchak and Kutaituchik long ago when they had questioned myself and Elizabeth Cardwell of such matters. |
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| 28 | 69 |
Elizabeth Cardwell was weeping, and I put my arms about her, to comfort her, and to protect her from the blasts of the swift air. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 212 |
The truly sinister aspect of even this portion of the girls' training did not become evident to me, or to Elizabeth, until the entire next week was spent again before the mirror, seeing themselves as slave girls, and repeating, aloud, these questions and answers, as though putting them to themselves... |
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| 15 | 225 |
In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl... |
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| 5 | 493 |
"Do you think," demanded Elizabeth, of both myself and Misk, "that a woman cannot be brave? Will you not honor her as you would a man with danger, not permit her to do something worthy of her species, something important and fine, or is all that is significant and meaningful to be reserved for men?"... |
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| 5 | 541 |
"Well then," said Elizabeth, "what are you ashamed of?" Then Elizabeth strode to her and, to the girl's horror, on one of the public high bridges, face-stripped her. |
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| 19 | 95 |
I felt rage and sorrow, rage at the twisting of events, the brilliance of my enemies, my own failures, and sorrow for Elizabeth, and the other girls; for Elizabeth in particular my heart cried out, for her hopes would be so cruelly dashed; she might not even discover that she was not on her way to s... |
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| 2 | 352 |
"It is a dangerous thing you are doing, Elizabeth," said Kuurus. |
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| 4 | 144 |
From a side entrance to the hall, where she had been kept, Elizabeth Cardwell, Vella, was thrust into the room. |
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| 4 | 148 |
Elizabeth, I knew, would hate that. |
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| 4 | 160 |
Elizabeth, trembling, lowered her head to the floor and crossed her wrists under her, kneeling, as it is said, to the whip. |
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| 4 | 164 |
Elizabeth did so. |
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| 4 | 166 |
Without a word Elizabeth did so, standing and pulling the loop at her left shoulder. |
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| 4 | 184 |
Elizabeth said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 187 |
"I am not truly Tuchuk," said Elizabeth. |
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| 4 | 199 |
"I am sorry," said Elizabeth, her head down. |
10 |
| 4 | 203 |
Elizabeth said nothing. |
10 |
| 4 | 209 |
"Yes, Master," said Elizabeth. |
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| 4 | 213 |
When Elizabeth had done so once, she remained standing before him, as he had commanded. |
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| 4 | 224 |
Elizabeth looked at him, startled. |
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| 4 | 225 |
I had not counted on this, nor had Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 4 | 230 |
During this time, since Elizabeth was nominally of the staff of Caprus, we could surely find time to be about our work, for which purpose we had arranged to enter the House of Cernus. |
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| 4 | 232 |
Elizabeth dropped to her knees, head down. |
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| 4 | 235 |
Elizabeth did so, and suddenly, superbly, she threw her arm before her mouth and cried out, as though just seeing me for the first time, and remembering me with horror. |
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| 4 | 240 |
Elizabeth had her head down to the stone floor. |
10 |
| 4 | 243 |
"Hateful beast!" wept Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 4 | 245 |
"Was he cruel to you?" "Yes," she cried, her eyes gleaming, "Yes!" Elizabeth, I had to admit, was a really remarkable actress. |
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| 4 | 249 |
Elizabeth threw him a look of incredible gratitude, her eyes wide with tears, her mouth trembling. |
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| 4 | 256 |
"No!" howled Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 4 | 258 |
Elizabeth collapsed weeping before the stone platform. |
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| 5 | 1 |
In the House of Cernus Kneeling back on her heels in my quarters, in the traditional fashion of Gorean women, Elizabeth laughed merrily and slapped her knees, so pleased was she. |
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| 5 | 39 |
"This permits," I said to Elizabeth, indicating the small hole below the latch bar, "the complex knot". |
10 |
| 5 | 47 |
We began to rummage through some of the chests and, almost immediately, Elizabeth discovered some five pairs of sandal thongs. |
10 |
| 5 | 55 |
Elizabeth looked at the cords for a moment. |
10 |
| 5 | 58 |
Elizabeth was quick, always quick. |
10 |
| 5 | 65 |
"Marvelous!" Elizabeth was one of the quickest girls I had ever known. |
10 |
| 5 | 73 |
"It is always the same knot though," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 76 |
"Anyone then," said Elizabeth, "could untie the knot". |
10 |
| 5 | 79 |
"The owner of the compartment," said Elizabeth, "returning to the compartment and untying the knot can tell immediately whether or not it is his own knot". |
10 |
| 5 | 81 |
"And thus he knows," said Elizabeth, "whether or not the compartment has been entered in his absence". |
10 |
| 5 | 84 |
Elizabeth then watched in silence while I, trying to recall the intricacies of my signature knot, worked the boskhide cords. |
10 |
| 5 | 91 |
I turned to Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 93 |
"Good," said Elizabeth, undaunted by the complex prospect. |
10 |
| 5 | 99 |
"Elizabeth," said I. |
10 |
| 5 | 131 |
With a flourish I unrolled the furs, spilling Elizabeth out, who shrieked and began to crawl away, but my hand caught at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment and she turned suddenly, trying to sit up, her feet tangled in the garment and I kicked it away and took her in my arms. |
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| 5 | 144 |
Sometimes I was forced to remind myself that she was Miss Elizabeth Cardwell of Earth, and not, as she lost herself uncontrollably in our pleasures, hands clutching at the slave ring, a Gorean slave girl, bred for the pleasures of a master. |
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| 5 | 145 |
* * * * Some months before, Elizabeth and I, the egg of Priest-Kings in the saddlepack of my tarn, had returned to the north from the Plains of Turia, the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 5 | 184 |
* * * * Elizabeth and I had remained with Misk in the Nest of Priest-Kings, that incredible complex beneath the Sardar, for some weeks. |
10 |
| 5 | 189 |
Elizabeth was silent as I asked of these things. |
10 |
| 5 | 213 |
Elizabeth, I noted, had stepped from us as we had spoken. |
10 |
| 5 | 215 |
Elizabeth had been rapt with wonder at the Nest, but after some days, even in the presence of its grandeur, I knew she desired again to be on the surface, in the free air, in the sunlight. |
10 |
| 5 | 227 |
Since Elizabeth and I were strangers in the Nest Serus had wanted us fit with the devices as a precaution, but, of course, Misk would hear nothing of it. |
10 |
| 5 | 235 |
Interestingly, Elizabeth learned to read Gorean in the Nest, and in less than an hour. |
10 |
| 5 | 237 |
Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a Priest-King, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl. |
10 |
| 5 | 249 |
"Let me up," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 251 |
Kusk twiddled a knob, and Elizabeth said "Please," once more and then it seemed she could hardly keep her eyes open, and then she closed her eyes and was asleep. |
10 |
| 5 | 253 |
There was a tiny click and a small odor signal was emitted from the apparatus closed about Elizabeth's head. |
10 |
| 5 | 266 |
"But it's Gorean," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 288 |
"When I look at it," said Elizabeth, excitedly, holding the sheet of plastic, "I just know what the sounds are—I just know!" "Of course," said Kusk, "but it grows near the Ahn of the fourth feeding. |
10 |
| 5 | 290 |
We left Elizabeth in the room and went to eat. |
10 |
| 5 | 298 |
But, as the days wore on, I, as well as Elizabeth, wished to leave the Nest. |
10 |
| 5 | 435 |
I turned about and, to my surprise, saw that Elizabeth had entered the compartment. |
10 |
| 5 | 438 |
Elizabeth did not smile. |
10 |
| 5 | 443 |
"Was it wrong for me to speak before her?" I looked at Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 449 |
Misk looked from Elizabeth to myself. |
10 |
| 5 | 464 |
"I will go, too," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 478 |
"I am sorry," I said, "I am sorry, Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 498 |
"There!" said Elizabeth brazenly, facing me, hands on her hips. |
10 |
| 5 | 501 |
Then he had placed his antennae on us, one on my left shoulder and the other on Elizabeth's right shoulder. |
10 |
| 5 | 502 |
Before we began our dangerous journey, however, at Misk's suggestion, both Elizabeth and I returned to Ko-ro-ba, that we might rest some days and, in a peaceful interlude, share our affections. |
10 |
| 5 | 505 |
We crossed the partially rebuilt walls, Elizabeth and I, and found ourselves among cylinders, many of which were in the process of reconstruction. |
10 |
| 5 | 511 |
Or perhaps one should say, simply, there was Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 512 |
Elizabeth, besides speaking boldly out on a large number of delicate civic, social and political issues, usually not regarded as the province of the fairer sex, categorically refused to wear the cumbersome Robes of Concealment traditionally expected of the free woman. |
10 |
| 5 | 514 |
Once a slave girl bumped into her on one of the bridges and struck at her, thinking she was only slave, but Elizabeth, with a swift blow of her small fist, downed the girl, and managed to seize one ankle and prevent her from tumbling from the bridge. |
10 |
| 5 | 516 |
At this point Elizabeth hit her again, almost knocking her once more from the bridge. |
10 |
| 5 | 517 |
Then, when they had their hands in one another's hair, kicking, the slave girl suddenly stopped, terrified, not seeing the gleaming, narrow band of steel locked on Elizabeth's throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 519 |
"What collar?" asked Elizabeth, her fists clenched in the girl's hair. |
10 |
| 5 | 521 |
"I'm free," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 522 |
Suddenly the girl howled and fell to her knees before Elizabeth, kneeling trembling to the whip. |
10 |
| 5 | 525 |
"Oh, get up!" said Elizabeth irritably, jerking the poor girl to her feet. |
10 |
| 5 | 527 |
"After all," said Elizabeth, "why should it be only slave girls who are comfortable and can move freely?" "Aren't you slave?" asked one of the men nearby, a Warrior, looking closely. |
10 |
| 5 | 528 |
Elizabeth slapped him rather hard and he staggered back. |
10 |
| 5 | 533 |
"Well," said Elizabeth, "if you like walking around wrapped up in blankets, you are free to do so". |
10 |
| 5 | 535 |
"You probably have ugly legs," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 537 |
"Don't choke on your veil," advised Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 539 |
"I doubt it," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 542 |
The girl screamed but no one came to her aid, and Elizabeth spun her about, peeling off layers of Robes of Concealment until, in a heavy pile of silk, brocade, satin and starched muslin the girl stood in a sleeveless, rather brief orange tunic, attractive, of a sort sometimes worn by free women in t... |
10 |
| 5 | 545 |
Elizabeth regarded the free woman. |
10 |
| 5 | 548 |
"Twenty gold pieces, I'd say," appraised Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 549 |
"I'd give twenty-three," said one of the men watching, the same fellow whom Elizabeth had slapped. |
10 |
| 5 | 551 |
"What do you think?" asked Elizabeth of the cringing slave girl. |
10 |
| 5 | 553 |
"That is your misfortune," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 555 |
"It will do," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 557 |
"Yes," snapped Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 560 |
Elizabeth, with the others, inspected the free girl. |
10 |
| 5 | 561 |
"Yes," said Elizabeth, "Rena, I think you're right". |
10 |
| 5 | 568 |
"Yes, Relia," corrected Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 572 |
"I don't suppose an exalted free woman like yourself," said Elizabeth, "drinks Ka-la-na?" "Of course I do," said Relia. |
10 |
| 5 | 573 |
"Well," said Elizabeth, turning to me, who had been standing there, as flabbergasted as any on the bridge, "we shall have some". |
10 |
| 5 | 577 |
Elizabeth then took Relia by one arm and Rena by the other. |
10 |
| 5 | 584 |
"Men," said Elizabeth, and went her way, the two girls, much pleased, laughing beside her. |
10 |
| 5 | 585 |
I do not know whether or not Elizabeth's continued presence in Ko-ro-ba would have initiated a revolution among the city's free women or not. |
10 |
| 5 | 592 |
Elizabeth was much amused by the forged slave papers prepared for her, giving in detail an account of her capture and exchanges, complete with endorsements and copies of bills of sale. |
10 |
| 5 | 597 |
I kissed Elizabeth long one morning, and then, with Al-Ka, she, hidden in a wagon disguised to resemble a peddler's wagon, left the city. |
10 |
| 5 | 602 |
There Al-Ka would release Elizabeth from the rain canvas and busy himself with the wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 605 |
Meanwhile Elizabeth would have built a fire and in it burned her clothing. |
10 |
| 5 | 608 |
Then, whistling, Al-Ka would pull the wagon out of the grove and Elizabeth would be on her way to Thentis, for delivery to the House of Clark, only another slave girl, naked and chained, perhaps lovelier than most but yet scarcely to be noticed among the many others, each day, delivered to so large ... |
10 |
| 5 | 613 |
Elizabeth and I had arrived in Ko-ro-ba in the second month, and she departed on the second day of the Second Passage Hand, that following the second month. |
10 |
| 5 | 616 |
It is true that if she, with other girls, were shipped by wagon to Ar, this schedule would not be met; but we knew that the House of Clark, in the case of select merchandise, under which category Elizabeth surely fell, transported slaves by tarn caravan to the markets of Ar, usually binding them in ... |
10 |
| 5 | 621 |
* * * * "I've got it now," said Elizabeth, who, kneeling before the slave ring, had been practicing my signature knot, using the ring as a post. |
10 |
| 5 | 625 |
It is perhaps surprising, but I think there would have been little difficulty telling which knot had been tied by a man and which by a woman; moreover, though this was much subtler, Elizabeth's knot did, in its way, remind me of her. |
10 |
| 5 | 629 |
"You might check this knot," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 631 |
Elizabeth's knot was a fifty-five-turn knot. |
10 |
| 5 | 635 |
Upon reflection, it did seem to me there might be some purpose in Elizabeth's having her own knot, apart from her delight in inventing and utilizing one. |
10 |
| 5 | 643 |
It seemed to me, all things considered, though it was a bother for me, a good thing that Elizabeth had her own knot. |
10 |
| 5 | 653 |
"I do not tie dainty knots," Elizabeth informed me. |
10 |
| 5 | 692 |
"Yes," admitted Elizabeth, "I would agree". |
10 |
| 5 | 696 |
"Please do so," said Elizabeth, wiggling a bit. |
10 |
| 5 | 697 |
"When you returned to the House of Cernus," I asked, "and told the Keeper what had theoretically happened to you, as I instructed you, what happened?" Elizabeth smiled. |
10 |
| 5 | 698 |
"I was cuffed about quite a bit," said Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 5 | 724 |
I bent to Elizabeth's bonds to free her when suddenly there came a loud knock on the door of the compartment. |
10 |
| 5 | 729 |
I gave Elizabeth a swift kiss and then jerked the slave livery to her waist and turned her about, putting her on her side at the foot of the couch, facing away from the door. |
10 |
| 5 | 744 |
Ho-Tu glanced into the room, saw Elizabeth and smiled, a slaver's smile. |
10 |
| 5 | 756 |
Elizabeth struggled to her knees, threw back her head turning the collar on her throat, and knelt facing us. |
10 |
| 6 | 91 |
Elizabeth, I knew, would have enjoyed them as well. |
10 |
| 6 | 93 |
Poor Elizabeth, I thought. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
I resolved that most of my problems in this matter might be solved if I simply refused to release Elizabeth until she had given her word, which she takes quite seriously, to be at least civil. |
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| 6 | 102 |
But Elizabeth, rightly or wrongly, was banished from my mind for the moment because I heard, from a side door, the rustle of slave bells, and was pleased to note that seven girls hurried in, using the short, running steps of the slave girl, arms to the side, palms out, head to the left, eyes averted... |
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| 7 | 171 |
Elizabeth, I had learned, who had been shipped from the House of Clark, had been transported in a covered basket, lashed shut. |
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| 7 | 183 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, I reminded myself, was of Earth. |
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| 8 | 1 |
Breakfast It was, predictably, an extremely irritable, and a very stiff and sore Elizabeth Cardwell whom I freed at the eighth Gorean hour, at which time I returned to my compartment. |
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| 8 | 18 |
"It did, didn't it," said Elizabeth. |
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| 8 | 20 |
"You try it when we are alone," said Elizabeth, "and I will bite your hand off". |
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| 8 | 21 |
"Hah!" I cried, and Elizabeth jumped. |
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| 8 | 47 |
It was a chipper, fed Elizabeth Cardwell who returned to the compartment, humming and sprightly. |
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| 8 | 62 |
On the other hand, it was certainly not impossible that the girls brought in the other night, or some of them, would be trained with Elizabeth, probably being taught Gorean in the process. |
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| 8 | 63 |
The fact that Elizabeth's training was not beginning immediately gave some suggestion that this might be the case. |
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| 8 | 64 |
"Tonight," said Elizabeth, "after the sixteenth bar, I am to report to the smith at the iron pens". |
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| 8 | 66 |
"Did you like it?" asked Elizabeth. |
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| 8 | 68 |
"I grew rather fond of it, too," said Elizabeth, "after a time". |
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| 8 | 78 |
I then, in great detail, told Elizabeth all that I had seen and learned the night before. |
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| 8 | 94 |
"With a good breakfast," said Elizabeth, "I am a pretty shrewd wench". |
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| 8 | 107 |
Elizabeth led me to a room off a kitchen on the third floor of the cylinder. |
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| 8 | 110 |
I sat behind one, and Elizabeth knelt back of me and to my left. |
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| 8 | 121 |
"The slave," I said, indicating Elizabeth, "will taste it first". |
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| 8 | 125 |
"I have heard," I said to Elizabeth, "that black wine is served hot". |
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| 8 | 128 |
I sat there staring down at them, and Elizabeth did, too. |
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| 8 | 132 |
I shared the breakfast with Elizabeth, who informed me that it was better than the porridge below in the trough in the feeding room for female staff slaves, marvelous though the latter might have been. |
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| 8 | 133 |
"I envy you free ones," said Elizabeth. |
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| 8 | 135 |
"Actually," I said to Elizabeth, "this is very rare. |
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| 8 | 141 |
"You are probably right," said Elizabeth, taking another sip, her eyes closed. |
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| 8 | 143 |
"It is very good," said Elizabeth. |
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| 8 | 146 |
Elizabeth had gathered up the love furs which I had kicked across the room and had spread them at the foot of the couch. |
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| 8 | 188 |
After we had kissed I rolled over and fell asleep, and Elizabeth busied herself about the compartment, afterward leaving to go to the office of Caprus, perhaps about the twelfth hour. |
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| 9 | 1 |
I Learn of the House of Cernus Ho-Tu, as Elizabeth had suggested, was only too willing to show me about the House of Cernus. |
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| 9 | 17 |
On the other hand, such girls might be trained, and I suspected that Cernus might have in mind some such experiment with Elizabeth. |
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| 9 | 45 |
In this room I saw two slave girls, clad in yellow livery with yellow collars, as Elizabeth normally was, kneeling opposite one another. |
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| 10 | 33 |
I saw Elizabeth there, in the hallway outside, carrying an armful of scrolls. |
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| 10 | 55 |
Elizabeth looked up, as though puzzled at this, as though she did not understand the reference, and then dropped her head again. |
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| 10 | 64 |
"Yes, Master," said Elizabeth, not lifting her head. |
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| 10 | 66 |
Elizabeth looked up brightly. |
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| 10 | 68 |
Elizabeth smiled. |
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| 10 | 69 |
"In order that they may bring," added Ho-Tu, looking at Elizabeth, "a higher price". |
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| 10 | 70 |
Elizabeth looked down. |
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| 10 | 72 |
Elizabeth looked up at me. |
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| 11 | 177 |
Both, I noted, were, like Elizabeth, dark-haired. |
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| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
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| 12 | 165 |
By the time I returned to the House of Cernus Elizabeth would have finished her slave porridge and be in the compartment, and I would hear about her day, and she would hear about mine, or most of it. |
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| 12 | 168 |
Yet Elizabeth, and the two others, Virginia and Phyllis, had only been in training for five days. |
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| 12 | 189 |
Since Elizabeth was to be the lead girl in the set she was summoned to the kennel chamber when Virginia and Phyllis were to be released. |
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| 12 | 193 |
The guard braceleted one of Phyllis' wrists to the rail and then snapped bracelets on Virginia, confining her wrists behind her back; he carried Virginia down to the main level and set her on her knees there, before Flaminius and Ho-Tu; Elizabeth and I were in the background; then the guard went bac... |
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| 12 | 220 |
"These are the three," said Ho-Tu, indicating the two branded girls, and Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 225 |
Sura walked around them, and then she regarded Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 227 |
Elizabeth did so, drawing at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment. |
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| 12 | 228 |
"Join them," ordered Sura, and Elizabeth went to kneel between Virginia and Phyllis. |
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| 12 | 229 |
"Bracelet her," said Sura, and the guard snapped slave bracelets on Elizabeth, confining her hands behind her back, like the other girls. |
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| 12 | 230 |
"You are lead girl?" asked Sura of Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 231 |
"Yes," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 235 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 237 |
"Yes, Mistress," said Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 238 |
Sura spat on the stones before Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 251 |
Sura looked at Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 254 |
Elizabeth, wisely, refrained from response. |
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| 12 | 291 |
Sura looked at Elizabeth. |
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| 12 | 293 |
"I scarcely think so," said Elizabeth, adding acidly, "Mistress". |
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| 12 | 303 |
"Plate collars!" To their surprise, the guard then released the two girls, and Elizabeth, as well, from their slave bracelets. |
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| 12 | 306 |
Elizabeth, now also free, went to their side, trying to help them. |
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| 12 | 313 |
He indicated Elizabeth's yellow enameled collar, bearing the legend of the House of Cernus. |
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| 12 | 323 |
This time Virginia and Phyllis needed no translation, and they, with Elizabeth, knelt before Sura. |
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| 12 | 359 |
Even Elizabeth, whom I knew was swift and spirited, seemed paralyzed and tortured by the goad. |
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| 12 | 361 |
The three girls lying in pain on the stones looked up at her in fear, even the proud Elizabeth, their bodies trembling, their eyes wide. |
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| 12 | 362 |
I read in their eyes, even those of Elizabeth, a sudden terror of the goad. |
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| 14 | 3 |
When I returned to our compartment I found Elizabeth sleeping on a mat, wrapped in a rep-cloth blanket, under the slave ring. |
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| 14 | 10 |
Elizabeth, with a rustle of chain, sat up, rubbing her eyes. |
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| 14 | 13 |
Elizabeth's collar had also been changed. |
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| 14 | 15 |
Virginia and Phyllis, however, Elizabeth had told me, still wore the simple iron collars which had been hammered about their necks by the smith days before. |
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| 14 | 18 |
I think it was not so much I minded an occasional bit of silk lying on the floor as that I derived great pleasure from the fact that the lovely Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, slave in the House of Cernus, must keep my quarters. |
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| 14 | 19 |
Elizabeth's puttering about, dusting, a cloth about her hair, serving me with these small domesticities, was a sight I relished. |
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| 14 | 22 |
Women, I suspected, even proud, beautiful, intelligent women like Elizabeth Cardwell, secretly wish their men to be strong, and upon occasion to prove it to them, commanding them as mere females, giving them no choice but to do precisely as he wishes. |
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| 14 | 23 |
I released Elizabeth from the slave ring, the chain and collar. |
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| 14 | 50 |
I did not mention it to Elizabeth but I would have expected the maps to be oriented only by key, and the notes to have been in some form of code. |
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| 14 | 51 |
"Our problem," said Elizabeth, "will be to get the copies to the Sardar". |
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| 14 | 55 |
The reason that Elizabeth and I had been placed in the House of Cernus had been because Caprus, according to report, could not obtain the documents we believed must exist in the house. |
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| 14 | 56 |
It was thought that I, as a mercenary in the house, or Elizabeth, as a staff slave, might be able to locate and seize the documents in question. |
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