| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 231 |
"And I laughed," said Flaminius, "and I realized that what moves men is greed, and pleasure, and power and gold, and that I, Flaminius, who had sought fruitlessly in my life to slay one disease, was a fool". |
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| 4 | 216 |
"The Physician Flaminius conducted the test," reported Caprus. |
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| 11 | 48 |
"Greetings, Flaminius," said Ho-Tu. |
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| 11 | 49 |
"May I introduce Kuurus, of the black caste, but of our employ?" Coldly Flaminius nodded his head, and I did the same. |
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| 11 | 65 |
"These next two," said Flaminius, indicating two cages separated by a cage from the last, "refuse to eat". |
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| 11 | 86 |
"We permit them," said Flaminius, deigning to offer a bit of explanation, "five Ahn of varied responses, depending on when they recover from the frobicain injection. |
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| 11 | 100 |
"Of course not," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 103 |
"Surprisingly," said Flaminius, "no". |
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| 11 | 108 |
Flaminius laughed. |
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| 11 | 112 |
"They do not speak Gorean?" "There is no girl here," said Flaminius, "for whom there is not at least one member of our staff who can speak their language". |
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| 11 | 114 |
"Surely," said Flaminius, "you do not think we lack men who are familiar with the world from which these slaves have been brought. |
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| 11 | 117 |
"I myself," said Flaminius, "have visited their world and speak one of its languages". |
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| 11 | 126 |
"The guard," said Flaminius, "liked her. |
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| 11 | 140 |
"This one," said Flaminius, "started to go into shock. |
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| 11 | 145 |
"Sometimes," said Flaminius, "shock cannot be so easily prevented. |
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| 11 | 150 |
"Yes," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 152 |
"Six," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 154 |
"Yes," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 161 |
Flaminius turned to us. |
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| 11 | 164 |
"Slaves," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 172 |
"Please! Please!" Flaminius stood back, expressionlessly accepting their supplications. |
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| 11 | 175 |
"You are slaves," said Flaminius, again in English. |
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| 11 | 181 |
Flaminius turned to Ho-Tu and the rest of us. |
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| 11 | 185 |
Flaminius turned to us again. |
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| 11 | 191 |
"All of you are mad!" "What is your name?" asked Flaminius of the first girl. |
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| 11 | 194 |
"I demand that you release us! I demand an explanation! Get us out of here immediately! Hurry! Hurry, I tell you!" Flaminius paid the second girl no attention. |
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| 11 | 197 |
"Eat," said Flaminius, kindly. |
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| 11 | 201 |
"Now drink," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 205 |
"What is your name?" asked Flaminius of the second girl, very gently. |
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| 11 | 208 |
"What is your name?" repeated Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 210 |
"Eat your gruel, Phyllis," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 213 |
Flaminius gestured to the guard and he, with his club, suddenly struck the bars in front of Phyllis Robertson's face and she screamed and darted back in the cage, where she crouched away from the bars, tears in her eyes. |
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| 11 | 214 |
"Eat your gruel," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 216 |
"No!" "Does Phyllis remember the lash?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 219 |
"Then say so," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 224 |
"Phyllis remembers the lash," corrected Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 226 |
"You are a slave," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 228 |
"No!" "I see," said Flaminius, sadly, "it will be necessary to beat you". |
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| 11 | 230 |
"Excellent," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 240 |
"Excellent," commended Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 244 |
"As you probably have suspected, noting the difference in gravitational field," said Flaminius, "this is not Earth". |
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| 11 | 249 |
Flaminius smiled. |
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| 11 | 252 |
"It is an invention!" "This is Gor," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 255 |
Flaminius laughed. |
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| 11 | 258 |
Flaminius smiled. |
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| 11 | 261 |
"There will be no more such stories," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 264 |
Flaminius indicated me. |
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| 11 | 267 |
"Of course," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 269 |
"He is of the Caste of Assassins," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 274 |
"Strong men," said Flaminius, "have always, even in the course of your own planet's history, taken the females of weaker men for their slaves". |
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| 11 | 276 |
"You are the females of weaker men," said Flaminius, "the men of Earth". |
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| 11 | 288 |
"Virginia," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 291 |
"Does it not seem natural?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 293 |
"You are upset," said Flaminius, "because you deemed yourself superior. |
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| 11 | 299 |
Flaminius turned to Phyllis. |
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| 11 | 302 |
"It is the anklet of a slave," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 311 |
"Have you not noticed," asked Flaminius, "the men of this world? Do they seem like those of Earth to you?" He pointed to the guard, who was a tall, strong fellow, rather hard-looking. |
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| 11 | 313 |
"What in all your femaleness do you sense of the men of this world?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 315 |
"Unlike those of Earth?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 317 |
"They are true men, are they not?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 320 |
I suspected that these differences clearly existed, but I would not, as Flaminius seemed to wish, have interpreted these differences as suggesting an inferiority of Earth stock. |
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| 11 | 327 |
"In the presence of such a man," said Flaminius, indicating the guard, "how do you sense yourself?" "Female," she said, looking down and away. |
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| 11 | 328 |
Flaminius put his hand through the bars, his fingers gently touching her chin and throat as she looked away. |
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| 11 | 331 |
"You wear on your left ankle," said Flaminius, "a locked band of steel". |
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| 11 | 334 |
"What is it?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 344 |
Flaminius laughed. |
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| 11 | 346 |
"You beast!" Flaminius suddenly reached into the cage and, taking the girl by the wrists, jerked her against the bars, painfully so, holding her at arm's length cruelly against them. |
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| 11 | 348 |
"From the time you were first anesthetized and hooded," said Flaminius, "you had but one purpose in life—to give pleasure to men". |
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| 11 | 350 |
"Bracelets," said Flaminius, in Gorean, to the guard, who produced a set of bracelets. |
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| 11 | 351 |
Flaminius then locked one on the girl's right wrist and then, her arms through the bars, bent her arms back, put the other bracelet around one of the bars in the gate, above the horizontal bar at the top of the gate, and, on the outside of the gate, about her other wrist, the left, snapped shut the ... |
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| 11 | 353 |
"It would be pleasant to tame you," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 357 |
"You will be trained as a slave girl," said Flaminius, "you will be taught to kneel, to stand, to walk, to dance, to sing, to serve the thousand pleasures of men". |
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| 11 | 361 |
Flaminius then looked into Virginia's eyes. |
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| 11 | 364 |
"Will you train?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 367 |
"Will you train?" asked Flaminius of the girl Phyllis, braceleted against the bars. |
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| 11 | 369 |
"Then you will die," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 371 |
"Will you train?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 373 |
"Good," said Flaminius. |
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| 11 | 377 |
"Yes," she said, weeping, "—Master!" Flaminius then stood up and faced us. |
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| 11 | 384 |
"It is impossible to tell," said Flaminius, "but my prognosis is that each, in her own way, will do quite well in training. |
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| 11 | 390 |
"That is true," said Flaminius, "and doubtless they will always be barbarians—but that quality, for some buyers, may exercise its own fascination". |
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| 11 | 392 |
Flaminius smiled. |
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| 11 | 396 |
"If there is a demand for such girls," said Flaminius, "our house will profit handsomely indeed". |
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| 11 | 399 |
Flaminius shrugged. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"I promise you, Ho-Tu," Flaminius was saying, "that each of these girls, properly trained, will provide a master with the most exquisite of delights". |
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| 11 | 406 |
I suspected that what Flaminius said was true. |
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| 12 | 169 |
This had to do with certain decisions of Flaminius and Ho-Tu, and the two girls Virginia and Phyllis. |
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| 12 | 173 |
For about fifteen days Virginia and Phyllis, while the other captive Earth girls had been removed to an iron pen, remained in the tiny cement, iron-gated cages, so constructed that the inmate cannot at any one time fully stretch her body; over a period of time this builds up a considerable amount of... |
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| 12 | 179 |
Flaminius would not visit them. |
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| 12 | 182 |
At last Flaminius visited them, informing them that they were not to be trained, and left. |
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| 12 | 184 |
The next day Flaminius reentered the chamber, but apparently only to pick up some records which he had left behind the day before. |
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| 12 | 186 |
Flaminius, apparently moved by their entreaties, told them he would speak to Cernus, master of the house, and to Ho-Tu, Master Keeper. |
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| 12 | 188 |
Flaminius then accepted their tearful gratitude for his intercession on their behalf. |
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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 | 197 |
She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she s... |
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| 12 | 208 |
Flaminius, gently, stretched out their legs, and rubbed them. |
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| 12 | 221 |
Flaminius rose to his feet, leaving the two girls lying on the stones, sobbing. |
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| 12 | 223 |
"Kneel," said Flaminius to them, in English. |
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| 12 | 243 |
"Do what you can," said Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 247 |
Flaminius looked down, angry. |
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| 12 | 258 |
"Do what you can," said Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 264 |
"Sura," said Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 269 |
"But," protested Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 272 |
"No one could do anything with such barbarians," said Ho-Tu to Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 275 |
I saw Ho-Tu grimace at Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 284 |
"Besides," said Flaminius to Ho-Tu, "even Tethrite of the House of Portus could not train such barbarians". |
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| 12 | 304 |
Flaminius gestured that the two girls should try to rise and walk a bit about the room. |
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| 12 | 312 |
"If your training goes well," said Flaminius to the girls, "you will in time be given a pretty collar". |
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| 12 | 314 |
"It will even have a lock," said Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 316 |
"You would like a pretty collar, wouldn't you?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 318 |
"And what of you, Phyllis?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 321 |
"Of course," said Flaminius, backing away a step, bowing his head. |
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| 12 | 334 |
"You will do splendidly," said Flaminius warmly. |
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| 12 | 338 |
"I will send one who speaks their tongue," said Flaminius. |
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| 12 | 340 |
"Translate for me," said Sura, to Flaminius, as she turned and faced the three kneeling girls. |
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| 12 | 341 |
She then spoke to them in short sentences, pausing for Flaminius to translate. |
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| 12 | 353 |
Flaminius translated this, as well. |
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| 12 | 364 |
Flaminius translated. |
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| 12 | 365 |
Then Sura turned to Flaminius. |
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| 15 | 182 |
In the third week, the education became somewhat more subtle and Flaminius visited the girls for their training hours, and discussed, with ingenious subtlety, first in English and then in Gorean, certain views of history, of natural right, of orders of human beings and of relations among the sexes. |
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| 15 | 185 |
Flaminius, for a time, accepted and encouraged counter-arguments, patiently, as though waiting for the girls, when their simple minds permitted it, to understand the truth of what he said. |
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| 15 | 186 |
Phyllis, I learned from Elizabeth, was particularly wrathful, when permitted to be so, with Flaminius. |
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| 15 | 191 |
Elizabeth would sometimes, in these weeks, come back to the compartment and relate, with amusement, the subtle exchanges between Phyllis and Flaminius. |
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| 15 | 192 |
In her opinion, and perhaps rightly, the positions of both were subtle combinations of truths and half-truths; Phyllis seemed to regard men and women as unimportant differentiations off a sexless, neuter stock, whereas Flaminius argued for a position in which women were hardly to be recognized as be... |
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| 15 | 193 |
I expect both, and I am certain that Flaminius, recognized the errors and exaggerations of their own position, but neither was concerned with the truth; both were concerned only with victory, and pleasing themselves. |
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| 15 | 194 |
At any rate, to my satisfaction, but Elizabeth's irritation, Flaminius commonly had the best of these exchanges, producing incredibly subtle, complex arguments, quoting supposedly objectively conducted studies by the Caste of Physicians, statistics, the results of tests, and what not. |
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| 15 | 196 |
Flaminius, of course, was practiced and skillful in what he was doing, and Phyllis was not difficult to catch and tangle in his well-woven nets of logic and supposed fact. |
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| 15 | 197 |
During this time Virginia would usually remain silent, but she would occasionally volunteer a fact, a precedent or event which would support Flaminius' position, much to the anger of Phyllis. |
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| 15 | 198 |
Elizabeth chose, wisely, not to debate with Flaminius. |
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| 15 | 201 |
Following some two weeks of these discussions, which seemed to me at the time, at any rate, to be a waste of training time, Virginia Kent, who had feared men, had come to weigh seriously, if not to accept, certain of the theories of Flaminius, Phyllis to fight them and reject them as hateful slander... |
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| 15 | 202 |
All three girls, in the last week, were taught certain standard answers to certain standard questions put to them by Flaminius, whether they agreed with them or not. |
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| 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 | 216 |
During the next weeks and months the lessons of Flaminius were never again touched upon, except occasionally, for her amusement, by Sura, who would suddenly cry to one of the girls, at the same time brandishing the slave goad, such a query as "What do you want more than anything?" to which the girl,... |
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| 18 | 126 |
* * * * I found Flaminius, the Physician, in his quarters, and he, obligingly, though drunk, treated the arm which Ho-Tu had slashed with the hook knife. |
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| 18 | 128 |
"The games of Kajuralia can be dangerous," remarked Flaminius, swiftly wrapping a white cloth about the wound, securing it with four small metal snap clips. |
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| 18 | 131 |
"This is the sixth hook-knife wound I have treated today," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 133 |
"Your opponent is, I suppose," said Flaminius, "dead". |
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| 18 | 135 |
"Oh?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 137 |
"Ha!" laughed Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 142 |
Flaminius laughed delightedly. |
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| 18 | 147 |
"Beware of Ho-Tu," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 149 |
Flaminius looked at me, with a certain drunken awe. |
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| 18 | 159 |
"No," said Flaminius, smiling. |
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| 18 | 172 |
"A teaching of Initiates," said Flaminius bitterly. |
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| 18 | 176 |
"Another myth of Initiates," said Flaminius, unpleasantly. |
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| 18 | 178 |
"I do not care," said Flaminius, "if it is true or not. |
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| 18 | 181 |
"For many years," said Flaminius, "and this was even before 10,110, the year of Pa-Kur and his horde, I and others worked secretly in the Cylinder of Physicians. |
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| 18 | 188 |
Flaminius laughed. |
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| 18 | 192 |
Flaminius looked at me, curiously. |
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| 18 | 195 |
Flaminius took another drink, and then he looked at me, bitterly. |
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| 18 | 203 |
Flaminius looked at me. |
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| 18 | 208 |
"The men who attacked the Cylinder," I said, "who were they?" "Doubtless henchmen of Initiates," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 211 |
"Most escaped," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 214 |
Flaminius smiled bitterly. |
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| 18 | 217 |
"Everything was gone," said Flaminius, "the records, our equipment, the animals; several of my staff had been slain; those who survived, in large part, did not wish to continue the work". |
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| 18 | 221 |
Flaminius laughed. |
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| 18 | 222 |
"I thought how foolish was Flaminius," he said. |
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| 18 | 238 |
What man could ask for more?" "Flaminius," I said. |
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| 18 | 248 |
"One thing more to this little story," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 253 |
"He does not know it," said Flaminius, "nor will he learn for perhaps a year". |
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| 18 | 255 |
Flaminius laughed and poured himself another drink. |
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| 23 | 20 |
Surely Flaminius, drunk, might still be in the house. |
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| 23 | 32 |
"Flaminius!" I cried. |
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| 23 | 33 |
"Flaminius!" A slave running past stopped on my command. |
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| 23 | 34 |
"Fetch Flaminius!" I cried. |
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| 23 | 49 |
Flaminius came in but a few moments. |
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| 23 | 58 |
Flaminius, tears in his eyes, came and knelt with me beside Sura. |
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| 23 | 224 |
In passing again through the hall of Cernus I encountered Flaminius. |
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| 23 | 229 |
Flaminius seemed shaken. |
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| 23 | 231 |
Flaminius looked down. |
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| 23 | 254 |
"You are Flaminius," I told him, "he who long ago loved men and chose to wear the green robes of the Caste of Physicians". |
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| 23 | 255 |
"Long ago," he said, looking down, "I knew Flaminius". |
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| 23 | 259 |
"I loved Sura," said Flaminius. |
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| 23 | 262 |
"I will not die," said Flaminius. |
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| 24 | 166 |
I saw Flaminius, at one point, standing before the throne of the Ubar. |
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| 24 | 231 |
I saw Flaminius briefly in the room of the court. |
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| 24 | 236 |
"Some," said Flaminius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 243 |
Who is this Flaminius?" "I am Flaminius, who was confidant to Belnar," said Flaminius. |
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| 4 | 1 |
Flaminius "Drink, Mistress?" I asked. |
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| 4 | 273 |
"What a victory! Getting Bosk of Port Kar in my chains! Then delivering him, almost in passing, as a casual surprise, to Flaminius". |
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| 4 | 274 |
Flaminius, I gathered, was the name of her recent guest at this picnic and meeting. |
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| 4 | 276 |
I had once known a physician by the name of Flaminius, who was of Ar. |
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| 4 | 337 |
I shall, in the meantime, send word to Flaminius to meet me there at the nineteenth Ahn. |
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| 4 | 338 |
That will give me time to effect the capture, strip and chain the captive, and change into my prettiest clothes, ready to welcome Flaminius as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened". |
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| 5 | 35 |
The wait until the nineteenth Ahn, and the arrival of your colleague, Master Flaminius, might be long. |
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| 5 | 185 |
Flaminius, probably with his men, would be arriving in the neighborhood of the nineteenth Ahn. |
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| 5 | 380 |
"This contains the materials, doubtless, which you were to deliver to your dear friend, Flaminius". |
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| 5 | 384 |
"I must deliver that to Flaminius!" "I gather that that will be difficult for you to do," I said, "chained as you are". |
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| 5 | 398 |
Still, I did recall that she had referred to a "Belnar" at yesterday's rendezvous with Flaminius. |
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| 5 | 399 |
"And you were to deliver them to Flaminius?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 414 |
I considered waiting for Flaminius and his men. |
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| 5 | 419 |
To be sure, I did not know for certain that this Belnar, and Flaminius, the Lady Yanina, and those associated with them were agents of Kurii. |
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| 5 | 434 |
"On the other hand, I recommend that you remain where you are, waiting for Flaminius". |
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| 5 | 476 |
Perhaps then Flaminius, and the Lady Yanina, and those associated with them, did serve Kurii. |
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| 5 | 477 |
"I see then," I said, "that you will have much to think about while awaiting the arrival of Flaminius". |
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| 5 | 478 |
"Flaminius!" she laughed bitterly. |
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| 5 | 479 |
"Dear Flaminius! He will shed few tears, I assure you, over my plight!" "That would be my impression," I said. |
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| 12 | 416 |
That conjecture seemed obvious, if not inevitable, given the importance attached to them by the Lady Yanina, she of Brundisium, and her colleague, Flaminius, perhaps also of Brundisium. |
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| 12 | 482 |
First, Flaminius, it seemed, who was to have received the messages from the Lady Yanina, had apparently intended to deliver them not to the Sardar, but to some party in Ar. |
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| 13 | 20 |
"Manacle him," said Flaminius, he in the service of Belnar, Ubar of Brundisium. |
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| 13 | 27 |
Flaminius looped the other end of the leash twice about the horn of his saddle. |
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| 13 | 30 |
"He is manacled and leashed," said Flaminius to his men. |
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| 13 | 41 |
"It was our original intention to wait for you in the camp, surprising you there," said Flaminius. |
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| 13 | 57 |
If Flaminius did not object I was sure, before we returned to the camp, some of them would make use of her. |
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| 13 | 69 |
"No," said Flaminius. |
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| 13 | 78 |
"Are most free women in Brundisium so easily recognized?" "Hardly," said Flaminius, "but our agent in this case, happily, was one of the men who had originally served the Lady Yanina, one who had occasionally, unbeknownst to her, a lusty fellow, spied upon her in her tent when she had unpinned her f... |
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| 13 | 85 |
"And it was from the Lady Yanina, of course," said Flaminius, "that we learned of your presence with the troupe". |
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| 13 | 89 |
"I know," said Flaminius. |
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| 13 | 119 |
"We shall now return to the camp," said Flaminius, well pleased. |
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| 13 | 124 |
"By the way," asked Flaminius, "what did you do with the papers you took from the Lady Yanina?" "They were worthless," I said. |
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| 13 | 127 |
"I am not surprised," said Flaminius. |
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| 13 | 131 |
"Had they done so," laughed Flaminius, "you would doubtless not have had to throw your lot in with an itinerant troupe of impoverished players". |
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| 13 | 133 |
"You were bringing grain back to your camp," said Flaminius, looking down at the sack of grain lying in the dust. |
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| 13 | 137 |
"Tie it there," said Flaminius. |
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| 13 | 139 |
Flaminius then turned his tharlarion about. |
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| 13 | 141 |
"Captain," said one of Flaminius's men to him. |
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| 13 | 145 |
"Very well," agreed Flaminius. |
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| 13 | 148 |
"After your uses," Flaminius informed her, "you will follow us back to the camp". |
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| 13 | 151 |
Flaminius then urged his tharlarion slowly forward and I, his captive, afoot, on his chain, carrying the burden, followed him. |
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| 13 | 178 |
This speculation had been amply confirmed in my dealings with the Lady Yanina and Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 88 |
"Nim Nim help! Nim Nim good urt! Now Nim Nim free!" "Kneel, Bosk of Port Kar," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 90 |
With Flaminius were the jailer, and his other fellows. |
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| 14 | 94 |
"Are you of Brundisium?" I asked Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 103 |
The accent of Flaminius, now that I thought of it, did have traces within it which suggested Ar. |
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| 14 | 107 |
"I thought you were to have had a bath," smiled Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 118 |
"Simpler, yes," said Flaminius, "but far less amusing". |
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| 14 | 127 |
"Of course," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 133 |
"Accordingly, we arranged your escape," said Flaminius, "risking nothing, of course". |
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| 14 | 135 |
"Of course not," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 138 |
"Of course," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 149 |
I now realized that it had been part of the plan of Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 152 |
"Look," grinned Flaminius, and he signaled again to the fellow who held the rags I had worn. |
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| 14 | 155 |
"Enough!" said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 158 |
Flaminius then took the garment, and looked at me. |
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| 14 | 163 |
Flaminius then threw me the garment he had taken from the sleen keeper. |
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| 14 | 171 |
"Yes, but not as amusing," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 191 |
"Go, little urt," said Flaminius, kindly. |
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| 14 | 194 |
"Nim Nim trick pretty Bosk!" "Hurry home, little urt," said Flaminius, kindly. |
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| 14 | 199 |
Too bad, pretty Bosk!" "Hurry, hurry," urged Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 201 |
Flaminius laughed. |
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| 14 | 204 |
"You will now turn about, slowly, on your knees," said Flaminius to me. |
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| 14 | 213 |
"I wonder what you will choose," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 216 |
"Do not permit us to sway your decision," said Flaminius, "but it has been our usual experience in similar situations, that the individual involved waits until the sleen are almost upon him and then, seemingly almost uncontrollably, runs into the pack. |
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| 14 | 220 |
"What will you do, Bosk of Port Kar?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 222 |
"An excellent answer," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 226 |
"Slowly, slowly now," said Flaminius. |
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| 14 | 235 |
I could see Flaminius there, and his men, and the sleen. |
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| 14 | 384 |
Yet I did not think it would take Flaminius long to grasp my intent. |
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| 14 | 469 |
I could see Flaminius, and his men, on the other side of the pack, quite near, now, to its edge. |
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| 15 | 25 |
"Flaminius did not think so! He is looking elsewhere! He is scouring the countryside! 'He would not be so much a fool as to return there,' he laughed at me. |
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| 15 | 28 |
My judgment is vindicated! Let Flaminius writhe in envy! It is I who was right! It is I who am triumphant! You are my prisoner, my prisoner alone, Bosk of Port Kar, the prisoner of the Lady Yanina!" Again she brandished the key at me, I looking up at her, she on the tharlarion. |
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| 15 | 68 |
Now all changes! Now, fool, you will be the reason not only for my restoration to privilege and station in Brundisium, the reason for my new rise to favor in the court, in the eyes of Belnar, my Ubar, but the cause, as well, of my attaining there, in the palace and in the service of my Ubar, and the... |
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| 15 | 88 |
How envious she seemed of men, particularly of her rival, Flaminius. |
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| 15 | 123 |
That fellow Flaminius did it that way, as I recall". |
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| 15 | 125 |
Indeed, she had been brought in on a chain by Flaminius at the same time, marched at the stirrup of one of his men, barefoot, her wrists bound behind her, wearing only a sack, that which had been her common garment in the camp, that in which I had put her long ago for my amusement, that which had on... |
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| 15 | 141 |
Perhaps, too, she recalled how she had been left to be discovered by Flaminius at the Inn of Ragnar, her men strewn about, drugged, she chained naked, hand and foot, beneath a feasting table, in the fashion of a bond-maid in Torvaldsland, such things, various things. |
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| 16 | 79 |
On his left hand sat Flaminius, who seemed in a glum mood this evening. |
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| 16 | 805 |
On his left hand sat Flaminius, who, it seemed, had not joined in the applause. |
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| 16 | 806 |
Flaminius, as I had earlier noted, did not seem too pleased with the nature and progress of the evening. |
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| 18 | 106 |
"Where is the Lady Yanina?" inquired Belnar of Flaminius, irritatedly. |
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| 18 | 107 |
"I know not, Ubar," admitted Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 109 |
"Yes, Ubar," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 112 |
"Yes, Ubar," granted Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 113 |
"I know you have an eye for her beauty," said Belnar to Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 114 |
"I trust you have not had her taken to a villa outside the walls, where she awaits you now in chains and a collar?" "No, Ubar," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 116 |
"Yes, Ubar," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 118 |
"Yes, Ubar," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 119 |
"You have not had her enslaved on the evening of her triumph, have you?" "No, Ubar!" said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 121 |
"Yes, Ubar," said Flaminius, uneasily, wiping his brow. |
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| 18 | 139 |
At this point Belnar cast a good-humored glance at Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 140 |
Flaminius smiled wryly, accommodatingly. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Her conquest this night was not to be merely over me, a fellow named Bosk, merely a fellow from another city, but more importantly, I gathered, over Flaminius, her rival, as well. |
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| 18 | 159 |
Flaminius, I noted, did not join in this acclaim. |
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| 18 | 164 |
She was, after all, in a sense, one courtier among others, and thus, in a sense, was doubtless in rivalry with many of them, not just Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 279 |
"He must still be within the palace!" cried Flaminius, leaping to his feet. |
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| 18 | 460 |
"Ubar," said a voice, the voice of Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 467 |
"Ubar," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 470 |
"Ubar," protested Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 472 |
"Issue orders! Are you a fool? Have them see to the safety of the streets, the security of the gates, the search for escaped prisoners!" "Surely you will take command personally," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 474 |
"I will take command then, with your permission," said Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 478 |
"Ubar?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 482 |
I want everyone who can recognize him, who knows him, guardsman or not, male or female, free or slave, involved in the search!" "Is he so important, Ubar?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 18 | 485 |
In a moment, too, Flaminius, his voice fading down the hall, calling to subordinates, had hurried away. |
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| 19 | 96 |
"Deliver it to Flaminius, the confidant of the ubar," suggested the man. |
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| 19 | 99 |
That would be all I needed, I thought, to report myself in to Flaminius. |
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| 20 | 39 |
I did not think that Flaminius, or a city captain, or a captain of the guard, would care to impose such niceties on a victim, unless perhaps she were a recalcitrant female slave. |
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| 21 | 2 |
"I thought you might come here," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 61 |
"You have reason to be frightened, do you not, my dear?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 66 |
"She was put in a state collar," said Flaminius, "with no specifications or restrictions. |
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| 21 | 137 |
I followed Flaminius and Yanina through the house. |
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| 21 | 167 |
"See?" asked Flaminius, at the exterior threshold, that leading to the balcony garden. |
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| 21 | 172 |
"He is your fellow, Petrucchio, I believe," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 178 |
"Apparently he turned back, hoping to be of assistance to you, or rescue you," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 182 |
"What a preposterous fool," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 185 |
"I have no intention of meeting you with steel," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 187 |
"I have your friend, Petrucchio," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 189 |
"If I am slain," said Flaminius, "Petrucchio, of course, will die". |
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| 21 | 191 |
"Surely it is time to have a conversation," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 211 |
"Or by his greed, or his ambition, or whatever proves itself useful," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 213 |
"Comply with my wishes," said Flaminius, "and Petrucchio goes free". |
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| 21 | 215 |
"Your disposition will be determined by others," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 228 |
"I gave orders that we were not to be disturbed," said Flaminius, angrily. |
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| 21 | 230 |
"Open in the name of the alliance!" "A general of Ar, here?" said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 234 |
Flaminius looked at me. |
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| 21 | 237 |
Flaminius hurried to the door and opened it. |
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| 21 | 242 |
I was told by the city captain that he received his orders from some fellow named Flaminius, and that he might be here. |
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| 21 | 248 |
"They are difficult to control," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 250 |
"I have heard," said the figure, sternly, "that hundreds of men, who might better have been used in protecting the city, have been spent in fruitless searches for some fugitive!" "Not fruitless, General!" cried Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 255 |
"I have him helpless, General," Flaminius assured him. |
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| 21 | 258 |
"Yes, General!" said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 262 |
Flaminius turned white. |
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| 21 | 266 |
"Where then are your men?" asked Flaminius, fearfully. |
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| 21 | 269 |
Flaminius relaxed, visibly. |
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| 21 | 272 |
"What?" asked Flaminius, aghast. |
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| 21 | 279 |
I seized Flaminius by the neck and pushed him back against a wall. |
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| 21 | 313 |
"If the sheaf of notes on acting hints, those on the detailed deportment of the head and hands, prepared for you by Publius Andronicus, had not somewhat turned the blade of Flaminius, it might have been a different matter," I told Petrucchio. |
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| 21 | 368 |
"Do not kill me!" cried Flaminius, twisting in the cords, seeing me approaching through the apartments, the steel of my sword bared. |
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| 21 | 372 |
I put the point of the sword to the throat of Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 378 |
"Yes," Flaminius encouraged me. |
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| 21 | 387 |
I then freed her from the bars and threw her to the tiles before Flaminius, her master, there putting her to my pleasure, before him. |
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| 21 | 389 |
"Excellent," said Flaminius, approvingly. |
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| 21 | 401 |
I regarded Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 409 |
"Doubtless men will be coming soon," I said to Flaminius, "to look for you. |
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| 21 | 411 |
"There is no hurry," cried Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 414 |
"She can do better!" said Flaminius, hastily. |
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| 21 | 417 |
"Yes, yes!" said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 421 |
"Is she not beautiful?" asked Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 424 |
"Use her!" urged Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 426 |
"You dolt!" hissed Flaminius to Yanina. |
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| 21 | 428 |
"Nothing," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 434 |
"Let Yanina please you!" I looked at Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 452 |
In this my own anticipations had proved sounder than those of Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 455 |
Flaminius's power, I suspected, had largely been a matter of his closeness to the ubar, and his control of special projects, under the direction of the ubar. |
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| 21 | 476 |
Flaminius, however, it seemed, did not derive the same pleasure from this that I did, certainly not after the first Ahn, at least. |
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| 21 | 477 |
I now glanced to Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 481 |
Flaminius, my prisoner, looked away, not wanting to meet my eyes. |
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| 21 | 485 |
"Good," said Flaminius, bitterly. |
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| 21 | 488 |
"Stinking, collared slut," snarled Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 492 |
"Excellent," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 512 |
"Eat," I said to Flaminius, spooning some vulo and rice into his mouth. |
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| 21 | 518 |
I heard Flaminius gasp in anger. |
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| 21 | 523 |
"No," said Flaminius, hastily. |
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| 21 | 530 |
I looked at Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 568 |
"I do not know," said Flaminius, frightened. |
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| 21 | 572 |
"I am naked and bound," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 580 |
"Please him!" cried Flaminius to Yanina. |
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| 21 | 583 |
"Slut!" cried Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 586 |
* * * * I held Yanina in my arms, before Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 605 |
"Slave!" snarled Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 608 |
I then, gently, to the fury of Flaminius, took her, as she gasped, and clutched, and thanked me. |
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| 21 | 610 |
"Hateful slut!" cried Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 632 |
"But Flaminius you might kill," she said. |
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| 21 | 634 |
"No!" cried Flaminius, sitting naked before the bars, his back to them, his wrists tied back to them on either side of his body. |
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| 21 | 638 |
I came back and stood before Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 643 |
"I give her to you!" cried Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 650 |
"Hear this, too, Flaminius," I said. |
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| 21 | 656 |
"It will be done as you wish," said Flaminius. |
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| 21 | 661 |
"If this is not done," I said to Flaminius, "I will not be pleased. |
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| 21 | 664 |
"The matter will be attended to," said Flaminius, "I assure you, exactly according to your instructions". |
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| 22 | 32 |
He looked in worse condition than he had when he had experienced the thrust of Flaminius. |
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| 22 | 204 |
This information, and I did not doubt but what it was sound, I had had from Flaminius, he of Ar, though seemingly traitor to that city. |
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| 22 | 283 |
"Flaminius," he said. |
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