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Book 27. (500 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	361	"I, Ellen, a meaningless barbarian slave, beg a Gorean woman for mercy! Please, Mistress! Please do not hurt me! Aii! Please, Mistress! Ellen begs Mistress! Aii! Ellen, a meaningless barbarian slave, begs Mistress, a Gorean woman, for mercy! Aii! Aii! Please stop, please stop! Please, mercy, Mistres...	10
17	771	"Ellen, Ellen, the slave, Ellen, the meaningless slave, Ellen, the meaningless, Earth-girl barbarian slave, begs for more!" she wept.	10
25	286	Ellen moved a bit forward, and to the side, and the woman tried to turn quickly away, but she had not detected Ellen's intent quickly enough, and Ellen had a glimpse of what she had suspected.	10
25	586	Then Ellen recalled the haughtiness of the former free woman, her former superciliousness, her almost intolerable arrogance, how she had treated Ellen, though she, too, beneath her robes was no more than another female, and thus a fit slave for men! Had she no understanding of herself? Had she never...	10
10	282	He has given me such a beautiful name! "I had thought, as long ago as the class room," he said, "that 'Ellen' would make a lovely name for a slave, and, as I watched you, moving before the class, I thought of you as a slave, for that is what you are, and were, you know, and I thought of you, too, as...	10
11	60	The new woman, whom Ellen did not know, had glanced at her at various times during the evening, curious, interested, but Ellen had kept her head down, serving silently, deferentially.	10
11	93	"Your name is 'Ellen'?" "Yes, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	264	"Then, Ellen," laughed the woman, "you are nothing but livestock, nothing but a pretty little piece of livestock, nothing but a domestic animal, nothing but a pretty little branded domestic animal!" Tears sprang to Ellen's eyes.	10
11	491	But the utterance had clearly involved no suggested recognition of Ellen as a person, suggesting that she might be a human being in her own right, instead of the animal she was, for that would have been improper, and would have frightened Ellen, particularly as she was in the presence of her master.	10
11	494	For Ellen knew herself as her absolute inferior, as the woman was free, and she, Ellen, was bond.	10
11	680	Are you an eager slave, Ellen, she asked herself, for she was now Ellen, and thought of herself as such.	10
13	568	"You are Ellen, the slave of Mirus?" "Yes, Master," said Ellen, head down, to the surface of the roof.	10
13	718	Ina then gently placed the basket on Ellen's head, and Ellen held it there, with two hands.	10
15	564	"Ellen, Ellen, the slave, begs!" she wept.	10
16	1013	"I am Ellen," said Ellen to her.	10
16	1184	"Ellen, if pleases Master," she said, "Ellen, the slave of Targo, dealer in slaves".	10
16	1352	Shortly thereafter, Cichek and Emris had been freed of the shelf ring, and Cichek was standing behind Ellen, her hands behind her, as ordered, and her ankle chain had been padlocked into the Ellen's shackle ring.	10
17	13	None of the slaves were willing to apply the soothing oil to Ellen, but Barzak had ordered Cichek, who, with Emris, were perhaps the slaves who disliked Ellen the most, she being a barbarian, to do so.	10
17	346	"Aii!" cried Ellen, for Jill, who was chained to the same ring to which Ellen's wrists were chained had seized her by the hair, with two hands, tightly, cruelly.	10
17	385	It thrust its large snout against Ellen's body, and under her arms, and between her thighs, and she screamed and twisted, and Targo told her to be quiet, and it licked her body, as though tasting her, and then drew its tongue back into the mouth, and then it moved about on the shelf, making its way ...	10
18	44	"What is your name?" "'Ellen', Master," had said Ellen, now named, named again, as a sleen, or kaiila, might be named.	10
20	784	Are we not all pleasure slaves? "You may be a terror to us, and strict with us, and an authority amongst us, you with your switch, we who are coffled slave meat," thought Ellen, "but in a man's tent, in the shadow of his whip, you, too, female, will kneel, tremble, whimper and beg to serve!" Last ni...	10
21	130	How complete was the victory of Cos! And what a small part of their victory was the slave called 'Ellen', as incidental to it as an appropriated tarsk! Ellen quickly turned her head away from the kneeling captives, or slaves, put it down and brushed her hair to the side.	10
21	200	How wonderful, thought Ellen, is the chance upon occasion to do something even as simple as washing one's body! How few people realize how precious so seemingly common and familiar an act can be at times! How grateful the slaves were for this opportunity to bathe! The rope on Ellen's ankle, as she h...	10
22	37	The woman then extended her small goblet to Ellen and Ellen, gratefully, on her knees, filled it.	10
22	98	Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau...	10
22	247	Let her wear a collar! Let her be a naked slave! Let her grovel and fear free women! Yes, thought Ellen, and let her dance before masters, as a naked slave, and be lashed if not pleasing! I am pleased that I am not a dancer, thought Ellen.	10
22	656	In a moment his hand must have been removed from her lips, for Ellen heard, "Thank you, thank you, beloved Master! I love you, Master! I love you, Master!" Kind master, beloved master, thought Ellen.	10
23	309	"Ellen," said Ellen.	10
24	222	Another example, Ellen realized, was 'Ellen'.	10
24	297	"Thank you, Feike!" said Ellen, looking up, and then, as Feike rushed through the silk, Lois returning, Ellen turned to look in the mirror.	10
24	549	Ellen had spoken in the voice of a mistress and Dara, startled, responded instantly as a slave, slipping the bracelet from her wrist, putting her head down and lifting it to Ellen.	10
25	525	So, thought Ellen, it seems that there may be yet another reason, other than time, and impatience, for rushing the chains forward, weeping, crying out, begging for mercy, stumbling, under blows, herding them so cruelly with jabs and blows to the block, to their sale, that we may show ourselves as fr...	10
25	568	Do you not know that such as you, dear Ellen, sweet, lovely Ellen, are the rightful property of men? Have you not understood this, have you not, for years, sensed it? Why, then, should you not be sold? How is it that I am a slave? Nature has made you such.	10
25	575	She looked down at Ellen, wild-eyed, trembling, weak, but in Ellen's eyes she doubtless saw little but her own terror reflected.	10
25	710	How ironic, thought Ellen, how perfect! And Ellen knew that on the block there was at least one man who had a whip, and would be willing to use it, instantly, on an errant girl.	10
25	820	Show these rugged, virile brutes that your slightness and softness, on sale before them, are worth at least a silver tarsk! Earn yourself a rich master, Ellen! Perform, thought Ellen.	10
26	206	"Ellen, the slave, your slave, Master, begs to be caressed by her master, Selius Arconious, of Ar," said Ellen.	10
30	213	Ellen heard a delighted female voice cry out, "Greetings, slave girl!" Looking about, Ellen saw that it was the blonde she had tormented yesterday afternoon, but now the blonde was tunicked, although, to be sure, briefly.	10
30	598	Now, however, in these last remarks, with no presumption intended, I will speak in my own first person, not of the slave, Ellen, who is I, but as I, who am Ellen, the slave.	10
10	266	"But I think I will call you 'Ellen'," he said.	10
10	269	"You are Ellen," he said.	10
10	272	"What is your name?" "'Ellen'," she said.	10
10	276	Such things are now gone, meaningless; they are irrelevant to, and far from, her current reality, that of a slave, that of the slave girl, Ellen.	10
10	283	Indeed, I decided then that if I were one day to own you, be your master, that that is what your name would be, 'Ellen'.	10
10	284	What is your name?" "'Ellen', Master," she whispered.	10
10	285	"To be sure," he said, "aside from the fact that 'Ellen' is a suitable name for a meaningless, pretty little slave like yourself, that name, as many similar names, has other connotations, connotations and suggestions of which I am aware but you in all likelihood are not.	10
10	291	"'Ellen', you see," he said, "is an Earth-girl name.	10
10	315	Can you imagine her fear, bearing such a name on this world?" Still the slave kneeling head down in the position of obeisance was not displeased, even so, to have been given the name 'Ellen'.	10
10	398	"This is Ellen," he said.	10
11	4	Ellen, crouching down, set forth the plates of hors d'oeuvres and the tiny glasses of sherry on the coffee table before her master, Mirus, and his guests, a man and a woman.	10
11	6	It had been explained to Ellen how she was to serve, how to speak, if spoken to, and how to conduct herself throughout the evening.	10
11	10	Ellen had been quite startled to see the apartment, entering it for the first time, for it might well have been one on Earth, in the house or mansion of some leisured, comfortable, wealthy individual.	10
11	30	Ellen made certain she did not meet the eyes of Tutina.	10
11	47	Mirus indicated that Ellen might ready herself to pour wine at the table.	10
11	52	His Earth name is not to be included in this narrative, no more than that name which had once been Ellen's on Earth.	10
11	56	Ellen poured the wine, beginning with the woman, and then Tutina, and then the man she did not know, and then her master.	10
11	61	After a time Mirus indicated that Ellen might serve the soup, which, she began to do, ladling it from a large tureen on a serving cart, filling the bowls one by one, and placing them on the table, in the order prescribed.	10
11	62	Once, on her former world, in an officelike room, Ellen had relished being served by the hated Tutina, coffee and pastries, and had, in her manner, subtly and abundantly exploited the situation in such a way as to make abundantly clear to Tutina the servile nature of the task, and her own implicit s...	10
11	63	Now, of course, Ellen must suffer before Tutina, whom she must struggle to please with her serving.	10
11	65	Ellen was in misery, but she had no alternative but to serve with all the perfection of which she was capable.	10
11	69	The subtleties between Ellen and Tutina doubtless escaped the attention of the guests, though, one supposes, from his amused expression, not that of their master.	10
11	71	As the meal continued Ellen continued to serve the various courses, bringing them to the table.	10
11	72	At one point her master indicated the coffee table, and said, "You may clear, Ellen".	10
11	78	Ellen, quietly, deferentially, soon returned to the larger table, with its sparkling linen and elegant appointments, and, as appropriate, resumed her duties there, continuing to attend unobtrusively to the various courses.	10
11	88	"You men are monsters," laughed the new woman, she unknown to Ellen.	10
11	91	"I have been silent long enough!" Ellen's master indicated that she should continue serving.	10
11	95	Ellen looked to her master, who indicated she should comply, and so, in a moment she had come about the table, and was standing beside the chair of the new woman, she unknown to her.	10
11	96	The one oddity, or anomaly, in the room was Ellen, for she was naked.	10
11	98	"You're very pretty, Ellen," said the woman.	10
11	99	"Thank you, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	101	"I am to serve as I am, Ma'am," said Ellen, head down.	10
11	103	Why, indeed, wondered Ellen, had her master had her serve in this fashion, naked, before strangers, before his guests, one of them a woman? Surely this could not be a common thing.	10
11	126	It is a collar of some sort, is it not?" "Yes, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	128	Ellen complied, and the woman, then turned about in her chair, began to examine the flat, close-fitting, narrow band on her neck.	10
11	130	"Yes, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	131	Ellen felt her hair, at the back of her neck, brushed aside.	10
11	134	"Can you remove the collar, Ellen?" asked the woman.	10
11	137	The woman indicated that Ellen might straighten up, but did not dismiss her.	10
11	138	Accordingly, Ellen must remain where she was, beside her.	10
11	150	"Female slaves, on the other hand, like our pretty little Ellen here," said her companion, "are usually set to less arduous labors, though perhaps to tasks commonly more repetitive and servile.	10
11	157	"Are you a female slave, Ellen?" asked the woman.	10
11	158	"Yes, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	159	"Then you must obey in all things, absolutely and instantly?" "Yes, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	162	Turn your left thigh to our guest, Ellen.	10
11	173	So, thought Ellen, I have been given a common brand, that appropriate for any low girl! So that is how he thinks of me! That is how he rates me! But it is beautiful! And it is doubtless, if it is indeed the most common brand, worn by thousands, at least, of girls on this world.	10
11	174	A common brand! But, of course, she thought, that is exactly the brand he would see to it that I would have! He is that sort of master! Ellen recalled that the first words she had been taught on Gor were 'La kajira'—'I am a slave girl.	10
11	182	So, thought Ellen, not all slaves are branded.	10
11	210	"Do I, Master?" begged Ellen.	10
11	217	"Poor kajira!" "It looks well on you, little Ubara!" "It looks nice on you!" "Get used to collars, Earth slut! You will doubtless wear dozens!" "Your collar is pretty," said another, "but not so pretty as mine!" "Master?" asked Ellen.	10
11	220	Ellen could not even feel the collar on her neck, but she turned her head, and moved it, as she could, the hand so tight in her hair, to feel it.	10
11	242	And so Ellen was now in attendance at table, waiting on her master and his guests in an unusual room.	10
11	249	Ellen, amongst fully clothed, elegantly attired guests, serving, was naked, and branded and collared.	10
11	267	"Answer our guest, Ellen," he said, kindly.	10
11	268	"Yes, Ma'am," Ellen sobbed.	10
11	269	"Please forgive Ellen," said Mirus, her master.	10
11	285	Ellen noted that the woman was very beautiful.	10
11	291	Ellen thought to herself, somewhat reluctantly, that she had perhaps not minded so serving as much as she might have supposed.	10
11	333	"Putting aside deeper matters," said Mirus, "you expressed interest in Ellen and in the fact that she must serve naked".	10
11	342	Ellen wondered if the woman was aware of her companion's gaze, of how his eyes seemed to glitter upon her.	10
11	347	"That is much what is the case with our little Ellen here".	10
11	354	Ellen trembled.	10
11	356	"Ellen, of course," said he, "is not of the upper classes, or such, such as yourself, though we occasionally take in such, but she makes an excellent example of a type.	10
11	369	"Of course not!" "Ellen," said Mirus.	10
11	370	"Sir?" said Ellen.	10
11	373	"Yes, Sir," said Ellen.	10
11	386	Ellen was to one side, standing.	10
11	391	It was rather that they understood so much among themselves, and took so much for granted, that to the uninitiated, to the outsider, such as the slave, Ellen, it very little made sense.	10
11	393	Ellen did gather that clandestine business arrangements of considerable scope were afoot.	10
11	439	She then caught sight of Ellen, standing to the side, unobtrusively awaiting the command to clear.	10
11	440	Ellen looked down, immediately.	10
11	466	This was the first time Ellen had heard the name of her companion.	10
11	481	"You may clear, Ellen," said Mirus.	10
11	486	"Good-bye, Ellen," called the woman in the off-the-shoulder gown, sweetly.	10
11	488	Thank you, Ma'am," said Ellen.	10
11	490	Else Ellen might have been terribly frightened.	10
11	495	Ellen cast a quick, frightened glance at her master but his gaze reassured her that her response had been apt.	10
11	499	Ellen, head down, continued to clear.	10
11	512	This puzzled Ellen.	10
11	537	How beautiful and white her shoulders, thought Ellen.	10
11	547	Ellen, in this leave taking, to her relief, was ignored.	10
11	551	Then Ellen and her master were alone.	10
11	554	Ellen supposed that he had drawn the chair away from the table, before reposing in it, to enable her the more easily to clear the table.	10
11	559	Ellen had, of course, used the smaller door in her serving, that giving eventual access to the kitchen.	10
11	562	Ellen worked to clear the table.	10
11	568	Ellen did not hasten in her work but took care, rather, to do it well.	10
11	578	And so Ellen worked, muchly aware that she was a slave, muchly aware that she was in the presence of her master.	10
11	617	"You are a pretty eighteen-year-old slave, Ellen," he said.	10
11	652	"You are a bright slave, Ellen," he said.	10
11	700	Ellen was under no delusion as to the sort of slave she was.	10
11	702	Even before Ellen had been told that she was a pleasure slave, it had not been difficult to gather from the nature of her training the sort of slave she was intended to be.	10
11	729	"I see you are under some stress, pretty Ellen," he said.	10
11	917	No, she must insist on respect! "I think, Ellen," he said, "that you have not been lashed enough".	10
11	1013	He then returned his attention lightly to Ellen, who knelt before him, his stripped chattel.	10
11	1042	"She will soon with her treasures then be returned to Earth?" "Sometimes I think that you are very stupid, Ellen".	10
11	1047	"I understand so little of this," said Ellen.	10
11	1048	"Surely you recall that he whom you judiciously refer to as Master Jeffrey, you see, you are learning, Ellen, informed our fair guest that, on the way to her chamber, that in which she would spend the night, there was another chamber which he would like to show her".	10
11	1076	"Yes, Master," said Ellen.	10
11	1094	"And now, Ellen," said he, "do you beg to serve the pleasure of a man, any man?" She determined to convince him of her worthiness, that he would respect her, that she was worthy of attention, of consideration, perhaps even of love, that there was a great deal more to her than he might be aware of, t...	10
12	32	Ellen, sweating, almost fainting with the heat, the hot, dripping garment in her hands, knelt back for a moment, and, in the hot, moist, close, steaming atmosphere of the low-ceilinged room, gasped for breath.	10
12	36	"Do you dally in your work, little Ellen?" asked a voice.	10
12	78	Ellen did not want to be beaten.	10
12	80	Surreptitiously Ellen viewed the garment of the free woman.	10
12	86	Ellen shuddered, and looked away.	10
12	87	Ellen was thankful for the device she wore, though sometimes she felt like crying out in misery, because of discomfort, its weight and heat.	10
12	110	Ellen, lying frightened on her side, locked in the device, at his feet, had no delusions with respect to the work-master's displeasure.	10
12	112	Ellen had been struck with horror at this environment.	10
12	120	Ellen assumed position.	10
12	122	Then Ellen cried out, cuffed, struck to the side.	10
12	127	Ellen went to her belly before him, her lips over his feet.	10
12	132	* * * * Ellen drew back, suddenly, crying out, for a stream of hot water, poured from a ewer, streamed into her tub, almost scalding her.	10
12	133	"Please, Mistress!" protested Ellen.	10
12	137	"I looked away, Mistress!" cried Ellen.	10
12	139	"Do you think I like being put to the pleasure of such a brute?" "Perhaps, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
12	143	"Is that why you whimper, moan and cry out as you do?" asked Ellen.	10
12	145	"Then you must be a slave," said Ellen.	10
12	146	"No!" cried Ellen.	10
12	149	"Please, no, Mistress!" cried Ellen.	10
12	151	"Stay on your mat!" "Please, no, Mistress!" cried Ellen.	10
12	157	Gart must hear of this!" Ellen scrambled back, that she might be on her mat, fully.	10
12	161	"You think you are so special, little she-urt," said Nelsa to Ellen, "because you are belted! Well, there are many ways in which a slave can give pleasure to a man.	10
12	162	And you are not in lock-gag!" Ellen did not know what an urt was.	10
12	180	"I do not think that master would approve," whispered Ellen, frightened.	10
12	184	"It seemed so to me, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
12	185	"And how do you wriggle, little belted pudding?" "I have never wriggled, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
12	187	Ellen put down her head.	10
12	189	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen, shyly.	10
12	191	"I am sure I do not know, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
12	192	"Do you not understand, you stupid little virgin, how men can enflame a woman, can make her helpless, can make her crave their least touch?" "Perhaps if she is a slave," said Ellen.	10
12	200	Ellen supposed both stories might be true.	10
12	208	"You, too, will learn to beg and scratch, little tasta," said Nelsa to Ellen.	10
12	209	Ellen did not know what a tasta was.	10
12	211	Ellen pulled back, suddenly, softly crying out, shielding her face as Nelsa, in a sudden, plunging stream, too close to her, water splashing and hissing, emptied the ewer into the tub.	10
12	213	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
12	218	Ellen looked up in misery.	10
12	266	Although Ellen had never been outside the house she understood that there was no escape for the Gorean slave girl, even outside.	10
12	278	Ellen thought, again, of the garment of the free woman.	10
12	281	No, Ellen did not think of freedom, for she knew that on this world that was not possible for her.	10
12	326	But such far-flung considerations were far from Ellen's thoughts at the time.	10
12	328	Ellen wondered if she were a terrible woman, because she wanted love, because she wanted to serve, wholly and helplessly, because she was eager to be devoted and dutiful, because she wanted to make a man happy, to please a master, because she wanted to literally be his, to be owned by him, to be his...	10
12	358	Could I, Ellen, learn to beg and scratch, she wondered.	10
12	377	Quickly Ellen scrambled up and thrust her hands into the soapy water.	10
12	382	Ellen was pleased that there was no way, apparently, that the girls could be observed when Gart was out of the room.	10
12	404	Instantly Ellen went to first obeisance position.	10
12	411	To be sure, Ellen supposed that she had not intended to have any particular effect on Gart, at least fully consciously, certainly not, and, indeed, she had been helpless in his grip, had she not, but she realized, even then, even when she was so new to the collar, that the sight of her beauty must h...	10
12	414	What are they laughing about, Ellen had asked herself, angrily.	10
12	418	This is, of course, in no sense an admission that Ellen had put her beauty before Gart, that brute, the work-master, he who ruled the laundry and to whom she was fearfully subject, in any way that might have been intended to appeal to him, in any way that manifested her slaveness.	10
12	424	How merciless they are! Yes, Masters, Ellen put herself before Gart—as a slave! There, it is said! I dare not lie.	10
12	442	Ellen lifted her head a little and threw a glance at Nelsa, who turned white.	10
12	449	Ellen, head down, moaned.	10
12	451	"Yes, Master," said Ellen.	10
12	454	"Could you not remind him that I am here, Master?" said Ellen.	10
12	456	"Forgive me, Master," said Ellen.	10
12	458	"Master!" called Ellen.	10
12	460	"If you should see him, tell him that Ellen is ready to beg!" "What does that mean?" "He will understand, Master".	10
12	462	"Please do not make me speak, Master," pleaded Ellen.	10
12	464	"I do not know what the standard begging is, Master," said Ellen.	10
12	466	"Yes, Master," whispered Ellen, head down.	10
12	469	"Yes Master," said Ellen.	10
12	477	Ellen had arrived at a bold plan.	10
12	504	Ellen pretended not to hear.	10
12	506	"I did not tell on you, for nearly scalding me this morning," said Ellen.	10
12	509	"Perhaps I will do so when Gart returns," said Ellen.	10
12	511	"I understand," said Ellen, "that if I had been damaged, you might have been boiled alive.	10
12	514	"I think Gart likes me," said Ellen.	10
12	516	"Please, what?" asked Ellen.	10
12	518	"I shall give the matter thought," said Ellen, tossing her head.	10
12	520	"Now, get back to your work, slave," said Ellen.	10
12	522	"You are a stupid little slave, Ellen," said Laura, the redhead.	10
12	523	"I think that Gart likes me," said Ellen.	10
12	529	"I think that Gart likes me," said Ellen.	10
12	533	"I think I can have men do what I want," said Ellen.	10
12	537	"Perhaps," said Ellen, lightly, tossing her head.	10
12	539	"But I am a pretty slave, and a clever slave," said Ellen.	10
12	544	Ellen smiled, and tossed her head, dismissively.	10
12	545	When Gart returned to the room, the slaves, including Ellen, returned to their work.	10
13	1	The Roof; She Is Summoned Before Her Master "How beautiful!" exclaimed Ellen.	10
13	6	"I have never seen anything like this," whispered Ellen, touching her collar.	10
13	9	"This world is so beautiful, and so fresh, and so marvelous," said Ellen, "and here I am a slave".	10
13	10	To tread such a world, thought Ellen, is worth a brand and a collar, a thousand brands and a thousand collars.	10
13	16	"It is so much more beautiful than most of the cities of my former world," said Ellen.	10
13	20	Gart, when he had acceded to Ellen's request to work on the roof, had assigned several of the girls close to her the same duty.	10
13	22	He would not know that Nelsa hated Ellen, fearing that she might tell her secret, about the threatened scalding.	10
13	23	Nor would he know that Ellen, in Laura's opinion, was little more than a petty, vain, stupid, self-important, ignorant, scheming, meaningless little bit of slave fluff.	10
13	26	Perhaps, too, he recognized Ellen's youth and vulnerability, her newness to the collar and such, and thought he might as well do what he could, within reason, to protect her.	10
13	30	Another possibility, of course, is that this would be Ellen's first venture to the roof, and he thought it well to have some of her associates, slaves she knew, slaves with whom she would be expected to be able to communicate, for whatever reason, in her vicinity.	10
13	31	Ellen stood rapt on the roof, the wind moving her long, sleeveless garment about her, gazing across the city, in awe, tears in her eyes.	10
13	33	Ellen lifted her arms gratefully to the city, the sky, the world.	10
13	38	What an honor, what a privilege, what an incredible gift, just to be able to see you, just to be permitted to be here! How unworthy are the women of Earth to know your glory and beauty! What could a woman such as I be on a world such as this but a slave? On such a world what else could we be? Oh, th...	10
13	39	"Yes, yes!" said Ellen.	10
13	54	Ellen, who at that time was not only new to her collar, but largely ignorant of the nature of the world on which she found herself, did not understand the darker or more problematic meanings of what she saw, or, perhaps better, the full implications of what she saw.	10
13	63	"This is now my world," cried out Ellen.	10
13	64	"I am only a slave, but I am here, and now this world is mine, too! It is mine, too! You are mine, too, dear world, and I love you, though on you I am but a slave! But on such a world what could a woman such as I be but a slave? On such a world a woman such as I could be only, and am worthy to be on...	10
13	75	Oh, give me virile masters who will own me, powerful men whom I must fear, and whom I must obey instantly and with perfection, subject to them in all things, men who will take my womanhood in hand and see to it that it is fulfilled, to its fullest most helpless measure, men who will dominate me with...	10
13	82	"Ellen!" called Laura, sharply.	10
13	83	"Yes!" said Ellen, and, turning about, she ran to the large wicker basket of laundry she had carried to the roof.	10
13	91	Having to ask permission to speak, when it seemed such permission was likely to be required, thrilled Ellen.	10
13	106	In any event, Ellen was not discontented in her collar.	10
13	116	Ellen wondered if Mirus, her master, would be pleased, if she were to dance before him as a slave.	10
13	127	What if the work-master should come to the roof and find your work not even begun! How soon do you think you would come again to the roof? Or perhaps any of us? Perhaps you would enjoy being tied to the high ring and having your pretty little hide lashed? And the rest of us might be lashed as well, ...	10
13	132	"Yes," said Ellen.	10
13	134	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	136	Ellen looked at her, angrily.	10
13	138	"Now I, too, have something to tell!" "Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	143	Ellen did, too.	10
13	148	Ellen, with the simple clothespins, attached a sheet to the line.	10
13	154	"May I speak?" Ellen asked Laura.	10
13	156	"Why have we been given gowns?" asked Ellen.	10
13	157	Ellen waited until Laura had finished with the robe.	10
13	160	"I do not understand," said Ellen.	10
13	162	"What are tarnsmen?" asked Ellen.	10
13	164	"What is a tarn?" asked Ellen.	10
13	166	"But," said Ellen, "those are only in stories, they are mythological creatures, like the hith, the sleen".	10
13	171	"I have never seen a sleen," said Ellen.	10
13	175	"You are teasing me," said Ellen.	10
13	179	"Oh, Laura!" protested Ellen.	10
13	190	"Why, really, have we been given gowns?" asked Ellen.	10
13	197	"Laura, please," prompted Ellen.	10
13	204	Tharlarion, Ellen had been told, were reptilian creatures, some of which were allegedly quite large, and domesticated.	10
13	212	"But there are no tarnsmen here," said Ellen.	10
13	221	And so, Ellen, that is why you are dressed as you are".	10
13	222	"I see," said Ellen, skeptically.	10
13	224	"Do tarnsmen exist?" asked Ellen.	10
13	226	And yet, what is the first thing they do with their exalted, aristocratic, noble, precious, prestigious free woman? They brand her, put her in a collar, and make her a slave, too!" "You are teasing me," said Ellen.	10
13	230	I shall certainly keep that in mind," smiled Ellen.	10
13	232	Ellen looked up at her, wildly.	10
13	239	Intruders may be through and beyond the city in a matter of Ehn!" "I want to see!" said Ellen.	10
13	245	"They do not want to risk them! Stay down, everyone! Stay down!" Ellen, standing among the flapping clothes, amongst the lines, between racks, shaded her eyes, straining to see into the distance.	10
13	256	"I can't see," said Ellen, brushing aside clothes, which had blown before her.	10
13	259	"I want to see!" said Ellen.	10
13	262	Ellen could not believe what she saw.	10
13	263	Above her, now darting away, was a gigantic bird, an enormous bird, a saddlebird, its wings with a span of thirty or more feet, and, seemingly tiny on its back, was a helmeted man! Ellen had heard an angry cry from the man above her, and words in Gorean she did not recognize, words that had certainl...	10
13	266	To be sure, how could he have hoped to make a catch when the girls were hidden by the laundry, protected by the lines, could take refuge under the racks, and such? Ellen was now on her knees amidst the lines, her hands lifted, as though she might fend away blows.	10
13	279	It might have snared even a man, so neatly and quickly it was slipped on its quarry, before he could thrust it from his straight, muscular, linear body, but, positioned as it was on Nelsa, a woman, nicely centered, between the flare of her hips and the swelling of her bosom, she could not even have ...	10
13	287	"Look," said Ellen, pointing away, in the direction to which the wind was blowing, that in which the tarn had flown.	10
13	292	"She was shouting about Treve," said Ellen.	10
13	299	The only men they knew, Ellen conjectured, were Gorean males.	10
13	328	"I speculate that her life is going to change," said Laura to Ellen.	10
13	329	"Doubtless," said Ellen, touching her collar, frightened.	10
13	394	Ellen gasped.	10
13	398	Surely not I! Ellen did not think this behavior on Laura's part was unnoticed by the stalwart figure on the roof.	10
13	403	Ellen made little of that.	10
13	406	"Mistress," said Ellen, bowing her head, as the others.	10
13	407	This was the first free Gorean woman Ellen had ever encountered.	10
13	411	Her accent did seem different from that of many of the other girls, Ellen thought.	10
13	426	"Laura," whispered Ellen.	10
13	429	"What of Nelsa?" asked Ellen.	10
13	432	"Will they hurt her?" asked Ellen.	10
13	436	Ellen shuddered.	10
13	437	"Is Treve a city?" Ellen asked.	10
13	440	"What is the name of this city?" asked Ellen.	10
13	460	"She wants to be the only one," whispered a girl to Ellen.	10
13	473	"I suspect," whispered the girl to Ellen's right, "our noble little tunic-wearer will be sold in Brundisium".	10
13	481	Ellen stood up, uncertainly.	10
13	499	Ellen did not know what the whip dance was but she was not displeased that it, whatever it was, might be required of Nelsa.	10
13	505	"Forgive me, Mistress," said Ellen, and drew toward her, across the roof, under a line, her large basket, and then reached into it for another damp garment, to shake out, smooth and hang.	10
13	507	Ellen, with the wooden pins, hung a garment on the line.	10
13	510	Ellen wondered what its wearer might look like, and what he might be like, and what it would be like to be owned by him.	10
13	513	"Is Ellen, who is the slave of Mirus, here?" asked the man.	10
13	514	Ellen was too frightened to respond.	10
13	530	Ellen was certain that the raiders had captured at least one free woman, as she had seen her helpless in the grasp of a tarn's talons.	10
13	534	But then Ellen did not know.	10
13	543	Ellen did not know what her own value was.	10
13	553	Ellen was curious as to her market value, and the thought that she must now have one charmed her.	10
13	561	I am sure he loves me, thought Ellen.	10
13	564	I love him! "Where is Ellen, the slave of Mirus?" asked the guard.	10
13	566	And something about her tone of voice suggested that she had pointed Ellen out.	10
13	567	Ellen looked up a little, and saw the bootlike sandals of the guard before her.	10
13	570	"I was frightened," said Ellen.	10
13	586	There was a silence, and Ellen gathered that the guard might be looking at Ina.	10
13	588	Ellen supposed that Ina wanted out of the laundry, and that she did not relish taking Nelsa's place as the favorite, or one of the favorites, of the work-master.	10
13	600	"The slave Ellen," said the guard, "is summoned into the presence of her Master, Mirus of Ar, to appear before him in the audience chamber at the eighteenth Ahn.	10
13	608	Ellen, her head down, trembled with joy.	10
13	611	"You will see that the slave, Ellen, is ready for the instructrices at the sixteenth Ahn".	10
13	641	"You heard, Ellen?" asked Ina.	10
13	642	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	644	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	646	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	647	Ellen seized up her basket by the side handles and, struggling, lifting it awkwardly, resting it against her abdomen, moved it a few feet to her right, further under the line.	10
13	649	"You are from the world called 'Earth', are you not?" "Yes Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	652	"Mistress?" asked Ellen.	10
13	657	"I do not think I could do that," said Ellen.	10
13	660	"Even so," said Ellen, dubiously.	10
13	669	Oh, yes, the men will like that! You are indeed pretty, Ellen.	10
13	679	Ellen stood back.	10
13	681	"Oh, Mistress!" exclaimed Ellen.	10
13	684	See?" "You are so beautiful!" said Ellen.	10
13	687	"I do not know if I could do that," said Ellen.	10
13	689	"Oh, Mistress," breathed Ellen.	10
13	692	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	700	"I have never experienced such ecstasies," said Ellen.	10
13	702	"Is it wrong to long for such ecstasies?" asked Ellen.	10
13	705	"I fear I long for them, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	707	"Yes, Mistress," whispered Ellen, scarcely hearing herself speak.	10
13	709	Ellen must have seemed to her so young, so ignorant, so naive.	10
13	711	Ellen looked at her, plaintively.	10
13	713	"I have heard," said Ellen, cautiously, whispering, "of the slave orgasm".	10
13	717	And once you have felt that, little Ellen, you will never want to be anything other than what you are, a female slave".	10
13	737	I am a slave, thought Ellen.	10
13	742	"Now get to work!" Ellen put down the basket and knelt before Ina.	10
13	746	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
13	747	Ellen reached into the basket and removed another damp garment from it, and took up a handful of clothespins.	10
13	753	"No, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	2	"Oh!" said Ellen, as the comb was pulled through her hair yet again, and again.	10
14	7	Ellen felt her hair smoothed and arranged carefully about her shoulders.	10
14	15	Ellen was brief-tunicked.	10
14	29	Ellen edged away from the guard a little.	10
14	32	"Good, very good, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	34	Ellen gathered that the instructrix must once have had first-hand knowledge of what it was to be locked within such a thing, to be fastened in such an apparatus.	10
14	35	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	37	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	44	Ellen turned her back to the first instructrix, and lifted her wrists a little, so that her bracelets might be checked.	10
14	60	The key to the bracelets was on a tiny string looped about her collar, not that this did Ellen any good.	10
14	81	Ellen stood very still.	10
14	83	"You must be careful how you move, Ellen," said the first instructrix.	10
14	84	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	85	Ellen was barefoot, as female slaves are often kept.	10
14	89	"You may kneel, Ellen".	10
14	91	"Thank you, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	115	But here, on this world, thought Ellen, unlike such a woman, I am a slave not only by nature, and appropriately, but under explicit, recognized law.	10
14	139	What does he want of me, wondered Ellen, wildly, struggling to her feet.	10
14	141	Ellen felt the comb, and then the brush, at her hair, and her hair was again, hurriedly, arranged about her shoulders.	10
14	148	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	160	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
14	161	"And you are out of the iron belt!" "Yes, Mistress," said Ellen, apprehensively.	10
14	163	Ellen regarded them, despite herself, reproachfully, offended, shocked, scandalized.	10
14	168	Ellen looked down, angrily.	10
14	169	Ellen's virginity was important to her.	10
15	1	She Begs; What Occurred After She Begged Ellen was drawn forward a bit, into the room.	10
15	4	Ellen gasped, and trembled, seeing her master.	10
15	10	"The slave, Ellen," said the guard, from behind her.	10
15	14	Ellen's master, Mirus, had apparently been reading a scroll.	10
15	22	Ellen walked down the long rug, approaching the chair.	10
15	50	Ellen knew she had a sweet figure, and lovely legs.	10
15	97	"You are pretty in slave bracelets, Ellen," he said.	10
15	109	Ellen went to first position, as nearly as she could, braceleted, the cloth of the cut tunic falling between her widely spread thighs.	10
15	111	As soon as the bracelets were removed Ellen, unbidden, went to first obeisance position, head down to the rug, the palms of her hands now on the rug, on either side of her head.	10
15	124	Men desire complete slaves, it seems, and this means total, vital, feeling, thinking females at their feet; that is apparently what one wants there; few if any men, it seems, desire a mere body, a puppet, a doll, an empty slave; who could be satisfied with such? Where would be the triumph, the pleas...	10
15	128	Ellen looked into the eyes of Mirus.	10
15	134	And from the slave's point of view, how can one best please a master, if one cannot truly see him? Ellen was certain that her master had seen fear in her eyes.	10
15	183	Ellen, I fear, turned white.	10
15	272	"Before you are granted an opportunity to beg," he said, "is there anything else of which you would care to speak?" Ellen's mind raced.	10
15	298	You have given me a lovely name, 'Ellen'.	10
15	341	"Surely such things dare not be said," whispered Ellen, frightened.	10
15	344	"I am a slave," said Ellen.	10
15	352	"Of course," cried Ellen, "it will be as Master decides!" "Are you ready to beg?" he asked.	10
15	365	"Yes, Master," said Ellen.	10
15	371	"Is it not a way, simply, for me to confess that I am a sexual creature, that I have sexual needs, and," and here Ellen put down her head, and lowered her voice, "—and that I desire sexual experience?" "You have not yet begun to understand your sexuality," he said.	10
15	373	"And do you, little Ellen, desire sexual experience?" She was silent, in consternation.	10
15	374	"Speak up, now, loudly, clearly!" "Yes, Master," cried Ellen.	10
15	379	"Is the begging not some sort of test, Master?" asked Ellen.	10
15	406	Ellen, for whatever reason, because of her intelligence, or her dispositions, or whatever it might have been, had made the transition from freedom to slavery with relative ease.	10
15	418	"Yes, Master," said Ellen.	10
15	423	At his belt there hung a small case, containing at least pens, and a tiny horn, which, as Ellen later realized, was an inkhorn.	10
15	424	Ellen had seen such papers before, when she had been examined in great detail, apparently partly to ascertain identifying marks, subjected to numerous measurements, and fingerprinted and toeprinted.	10
15	432	Ellen had scarcely a moment to note the two entering men, in their blue robes, before she was ordered to first obeisance position.	10
15	442	"I am the slave girl, Ellen.	10
15	447	"I am Ellen," she said, "the slave girl of Mirus of Ar.	10
15	461	Ellen struggled to first position, sobbing, her body shaking with misery.	10
15	485	Ellen went prone, before him, her hands at the sides of her head.	10
15	487	"I am Ellen, the slave girl," she said.	10
15	493	"Master?" said Ellen, startled.	10
15	501	"Master?" asked Ellen.	10
15	509	"Forgive me, Master," said Ellen.	10
15	523	And later she, Ellen, had even been put in the iron belt, probably as she had progressed in her lessons and had become, if only unconsciously and inadvertently, far more desirable, far more provocative, feminine, and sensuous.	10
15	566	"Ellen, the slave, your slave, the slave of Mirus of Ar, begs her master, begs you, her master, Mirus of Ar, for mercy!" she wept.	10
16	156	She had been told by one of the instructrices that that collar had said, 'I am Ellen, the slave of Mirus of Ar'.	10
16	164	"No, no, no!" said Ellen.	10
16	166	"No, no!" said Ellen, sitting, trying to cover herself.	10
16	174	"No, no!" said Ellen.	10
16	180	Ellen kept her head down, pretending to be asleep.	10
16	182	Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position.	10
16	185	Ellen was going to break position angrily, and speak crossly to the girl, thinking herself the victim of a joke, when it occurred to her that the "Man" command might have been appropriately motivated.	10
16	196	Instantly the chained slaves, including Ellen, went to first position.	10
16	200	Steps approached Ellen, who had, of course, supposing herself the "new girl," remained in position.	10
16	211	Ellen knelt straightly.	10
16	216	It was Ellen's impression that the girls had called out only when interesting, handsome men had passed, or loitered in the vicinity of the shelf.	10
16	219	"Yes, Master," said Ellen.	10
16	224	Are you hungry?" "Yes, Master," said Ellen, after a moment.	10
16	238	Ellen sensed that the man might be holding something in his hands, something in each hand.	10
16	258	"'Ellen'," she said, "—if it pleases Master".	10
16	263	It suddenly occurred to Ellen, that this might be a test, administered by her master, Mirus of Ar.	10
16	270	"Master?" asked Ellen.	10
16	273	Ellen bit her lip.	10
16	291	This, Ellen supposed, was Barzak.	10
16	304	Ellen realized, uneasily, that she might be included in the width of this sweeping reference.	10
16	310	Widen those knees, girl!" Ellen, in position, instantly complied.	10
16	314	Ellen could not even speak.	10
16	316	Then he turned to Ellen, reprovingly.	10
16	327	Ellen gathered that Targo might be such that one might, with relative impunity, speak to him.	10
16	334	"Only one," said Ellen.	10
16	386	Ellen has asked her master if her Gorean, that taught to her in Ar, might evince such peculiarities, but he only smiled and informed her that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira.	10
16	396	"So," said he, "are you red silk?" "Yes, Master!" sobbed Ellen.	10
16	399	Ellen recalled that her master had indeed opened her for the uses of men, rudely, and with authority.	10
16	437	Do you whimper, and cry out, and moan, and scream, and gasp, and clutch, and beg, and shudder and kick, and spasm helplessly and repeatedly? Have you never been driven mercilessly and helplessly, as if by whips, to slave orgasm? And then to another, and another, and to as many as your master chooses...	10
16	457	"No, Master," said Ellen.	10
16	511	Ellen wanted to cry out with misery, but she was in position, looking out across the square.	10
16	547	Ellen thought that perhaps the Robes of Concealment were not to be entrusted to common laundries.	10
16	616	All in all, Ellen suspected, frightened at the thought, that she might grow more and more delighted with her beauty, her being and condition.	10
16	625	But what does it matter, Ellen asked herself.	10
16	627	Perhaps they, thought Ellen, wish they, too, were so garbed, so delightfully and sensuously, and were so free, so vital, so delicious, so desirable, so beautiful! Too, the slaves seemed to her radiantly happy.	10
16	630	How well mastered they must be, thought Ellen.	10
16	633	Ellen then sat on the cement, shading her eyes.	10
16	678	Ellen saw fear in her eyes.	10
16	679	This fear exhibited by her sister slave frightened Ellen even more.	10
16	700	These considerations were nothing that Ellen understood at the time, and even if she had understood them, there was nothing in them, of course, to lessen the actual, miserable, fierce burning of the lash.	10
16	702	"Master?" sobbed Ellen, a mass of flaming, stinging stripes at his feet, from the back of her neck, just below the collar, to the back of her knees.	10
16	703	"Thank him, thank him!" hissed the girl chained to the ring which Ellen grasped so tightly.	10
16	704	"Thank you, Master," whispered Ellen.	10
16	706	"Thank you for beating me, Master," whispered Ellen, through her tears.	10
16	709	"Thank you for beating me, Master!" said Ellen.	10
16	711	Ellen then lay there, on her stomach, by the ring, still grasping it, sobbing, in misery, her body rich with bright, burning stripes, a whipped slave.	10
16	722	Where am I, Ellen wondered.	10
16	724	"Who is Targo?" asked Ellen of the girl chained to the ring she still held.	10
16	730	The concern of the girl chained to the ring which Ellen still grasped was not unwarranted.	10
16	754	"But he is the master?" said Ellen.	10
16	760	"Does Targo, I mean, the master, have a Home Stone?" asked Ellen.	10
16	763	"You are a barbarian, as it seems," said the girl to whom Ellen had addressed her first queries.	10
16	764	"Yes Mistress," said Ellen.	10
16	766	"Forgive me, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
16	771	Ellen had thought that likely, but she did not know if she, during her period of unconsciousness, might have been moved to another, perhaps similar city.	10
16	780	"Yes, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
16	787	Ellen looked to the left and right, on the surface of the shelf.	10
16	804	Ellen shrank back, away from the front of the shelf.	10
16	811	Ellen supposed that they, too, then, were slaves.	10
16	813	"She-urts!" cried the girl to Ellen's left, with a rustle of chain.	10
16	816	"Clumsy slaves!" cried another of Ellen's chain sisters.	10
16	817	At this moment, to Ellen's dismay, and that of her companions, the lead guard, seizing the first girl by the upper arm, pulled the coffle through the crowd, bringing it to a place just before the shelf.	10
16	818	Instantly Ellen, and the other girls on the shelf, frightened, went to first obeisance position.	10
16	820	With a rustle of chain Ellen and the others went to first position.	10
16	822	This meant nothing to Ellen, but to the other girls it seemed to have some considerable impact, producing even a sentiment which might be bordering on awe.	10
16	825	The accent of the man, Ellen noted, did not seem the same as those accents with which she was most familiar, but he did speak Gorean, and she had no difficulty in understanding him.	10
16	829	Though this was not known to Ellen at the time, the scarlet denoted the caste of Warriors, one of the five high castes of Gor, the others being the Initiates, Physicians, Builders and Scribes.	10
16	837	There were other names, phrases and remarks that Ellen did not even understand.	10
16	892	Instantly Ellen, and her sister slaves, went to first obeisance position, head down to the cement.	10
16	895	"Forgive us, Mistresses," said Ellen, too, following the lead of her chain sisters, she, like the others, head down to the cement, in first obeisance position.	10
16	899	He was quick with Ellen, perhaps because of her youth, perhaps because she had refrained from participating in this small contretemps, perhaps in his eagerness to get to the culprit on her left.	10
16	900	"And you," he said to her, "do you acknowledge yourself inferior to these slaves?" "Yes, Master," said Ellen, and so easily did she escape his further attention.	10
16	909	Ellen lifted her head a little.	10
16	911	They are still only slaves, such as we, thought Ellen.	10
16	926	Ellen supposed that Targo and Barzak might have been in the vicinity during the scene with the guardsmen, but, doubtless wisely, wishing to avoid further unpleasantness, if not actual danger, did not step forward and identify themselves.	10
16	930	Ellen, now sitting, looked at the shackle closed about her left ankle.	10
16	967	Ellen shrank back in terror.	10
16	977	Targo came about the shelf and stood before Ellen, he on the ground, she on the shelf.	10
16	980	You are not really stupid, are you?" "I do not think so, Master," said Ellen.	10
16	990	"Master!" wept Ellen.	10
16	995	"Yes, Master," said Ellen, in horror.	10
16	997	Ellen suspected that they were both heading for the Iron Collar.	10
16	1000	"The Masters are so stupid," said the girl to Ellen's left.	10
16	1001	"Do they really think we are going to attempt to allure an unwanted master?" "Not in their absence," laughed another, two rings to Ellen's right.	10
16	1006	"Be silent, shelf girl," said the girl to Ellen's left.	10
16	1008	"I can speak as I wish!" "We would see about that," said the girl to Ellen's left, "if my chain could reach you!" "You are not Mistress!" said the one.	10
16	1009	Ellen realized that a first girl must not have been appointed, though she knew that she herself, given her youth and her newness on the chain, would be subordinate to the others.	10
16	1010	"If I get my hands on you, we will see who is Mistress!" said the girl to Ellen's left.	10
16	1012	The girl on Ellen's left turned away, sitting, and looked out upon the crowd, sullenly.	10
16	1015	"Forgive me, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
16	1020	"Forgive me, Mistress," said Ellen.	10
16	1022	"Mistresses," said Ellen, deferentially.	10
16	1026	"Forgive me, Mistresses," said Ellen.	10
16	1031	"Forgive me, Mistress," said Ellen.	10