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Hurtha

Book 21. (415 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	1	Hurtha; Boabissia; We Are Now on the Genesian Road "What are you doing here?" I asked Hurtha.	10
5	282	She looked at Hurtha, and then at me, and then again at Hurtha.	10
6	1	Hurtha's Feast "Hurtha," said I, "what have you there?" "Fruits, dried and fresh, candies, nuts, four sorts of meats, choice, all of them, fresh-baked bread, selected pastries," responded he, his arms full, "and some superb paga and delicate ka-la-na".	10
13	350	We then followed him, Hurtha and I, and Boabissia, the hempen leashes of Tula and Feiqa in the grasp of Hurtha.	10
4	122	"I am Hurtha," said the blond fellow beside me.	10
4	130	Why do you ask?" "Hurtha is a weakling, and a poet!" laughed Sorath.	10
4	131	"I am a warrior, and an Alar," said Hurtha, "but it is true that I am fond of songs".	10
4	143	"I am an Alar," said Hurtha.	10
4	148	"And one should," agreed Hurtha, "for otherwise one might not improve one's fortunes".	10
4	150	"I am not unaware that men may fight for many reasons," said Hurtha.	10
4	152	"Land, gold, vengeance, women, water, pasturage, tradition, custom, sport," said Hurtha, "such things".	10
4	155	"Right," said Hurtha, "if that is what you are interested in, seems to me a very hard thing to understand.	10
4	162	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
4	166	"Perhaps," said Hurtha.	10
4	170	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
4	172	"Perhaps," said Hurtha, "but why, then, is there so much disagreement among them?" "I do not know," I admitted.	10
4	179	"Are there such women as these in the cities?" asked Hurtha, indicating Feiqa.	10
4	181	"Surely we should study siege work," smiled Hurtha.	10
4	193	"The free women kill them," said Hurtha.	10
4	226	"Let him have her for a few Ehn," suggested Hurtha.	10
4	232	"He will not know the ax," said Hurtha.	10
4	253	"Beware, friend," said Hurtha.	10
4	295	Hurtha and Genserix, for example, judging from the alarm which I noted in their expressions, seemed to be under no misapprehensions in the matter.	10
4	358	"Do not be misled," said Hurtha, smiling.	10
4	443	As Hurtha had warned me earlier, Sorath well knew the ways of the ax.	10
4	465	"Sorath is very good, don't you think?" asked Hurtha.	10
5	145	"They are beautiful," said Hurtha, admiringly.	10
5	173	Hurtha threw his things into the wagon.	10
5	178	There did not seem room for both Hurtha and myself on the wagon box, beside Mincon.	10
5	197	"You are wearing a dress," said Hurtha.	10
5	203	Hurtha regarded her.	10
5	212	"You are wearing a dress," said Hurtha.	10
5	255	"You had best remain within the safety of the wagons," said Hurtha.	10
5	259	"You might be killed," said Hurtha.	10
5	261	"You might be caught, and put in chains," said Hurtha.	10
5	269	"Remain with the wagons," said Hurtha.	10
5	274	"Please, Hurtha," she said.	10
5	286	Hurtha looked at me.	10
5	291	"Do you have any money?" asked Hurtha.	10
5	328	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
5	330	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
5	338	"Do you wish to come with us?" asked Hurtha.	10
5	372	Hurtha had taken her under the arms and swung her up to the wagon box.	10
5	499	But perhaps she wanted, like Hurtha, to see more of the world, or to make her fortune.	10
5	508	Hurtha and I walked beside the wagon.	10
6	13	"Feast heartily," said Hurtha, unloading, half spilling, his acquisitions near the fire at our campsite.	10
6	17	"It is excellent," agreed Hurtha.	10
6	19	"There is plenty left for them," Hurtha assured me.	10
6	30	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
6	33	"I am an Alar," Hurtha explained.	10
6	36	"Have two," said Hurtha.	10
6	39	That was, as I recalled, the sum total of the monetary wealth which Hurtha had brought with him to the supply train, that or something much in its neighborhood.	10
6	40	"Oh," said Hurtha, "it cost more than that".	10
6	42	"Have a mushroom," said Hurtha.	10
6	45	"I do not recall," said Hurtha.	10
6	51	"I am quite hungry, Hurtha," said Boabissia.	10
6	54	"Oh, very well," said Hurtha.	10
6	57	"Ah, Mincon, my friend, my dear fellow," said Hurtha.	10
6	70	I hoped we could arouse Mincon and Hurtha at least by noon.	10
6	77	Had Tula not had some bread earlier? "Have a mushroom," said Hurtha.	10
6	83	"They are good," Hurtha insisted.	10
6	94	Hurtha, of course, might be impaled.	10
6	98	"What are they stuffed with?" I asked Hurtha.	10
6	104	"Alas," said Hurtha.	10
6	108	Hurtha turned about, looking.	10
6	112	"Ho!" cried Hurtha, cheerfully, to the fellow.	10
6	117	"Of course," said Hurtha.	10
6	119	"Come," called Hurtha, cheerily.	10
6	121	"I am sorry the mushrooms are all gone," said Hurtha to me.	10
6	128	When Hurtha glanced about he did not, certainly, seem to be doing so.	10
6	130	"They are very good," said Hurtha, "though, to be sure, they are not a match for the stuffed mushrooms".	10
6	132	"Excuse me," I said to Hurtha.	10
6	144	"He is called Hurtha," I said.	10
6	153	"That sounds like Hurtha," I admitted.	10
6	170	To be sure, when Hurtha had seen this fellow a few moments ago, he had referred to him not as his "creditor," but rather, now that I recalled it, warmly, as his "benefactor".	10
6	201	I then, without great pleasure, restored to the determined, inflexible fellow the amount in full which he had earlier, and of his own free will, as I did not fail to remind him, bestowed on my friend, Hurtha.	10
6	207	I decided I must speak with Hurtha.	10
6	210	"Alas," said Hurtha, "we have finished them.	10
6	214	"It is perhaps just as well," said Hurtha, "as there is not much left.	10
6	216	"Interesting," mused Hurtha.	10
6	218	"A splendid fellow," said Hurtha.	10
6	220	"Of course, my dear friend," said Hurtha, "anything you like".	10
6	239	"Precisely," said Hurtha.	10
6	241	"Not much, I am afraid," said Hurtha.	10
7	8	"You did very well," Hurtha congratulated me.	10
7	14	Hurtha fell against the side of the wagon.	10
7	44	It had been with difficulty that Hurtha and I had managed to put them there.	10
7	50	"Oh!" cried Hurtha.	10
7	52	"Here," I said to Hurtha, going to where he had stumbled off the road.	10
7	61	"Would you like some paga?" asked Hurtha, hospitably, clinging grimly to the wagon.	10
7	64	"It is all gone?" asked Hurtha, in dismay.	10
7	69	"It is possible, of course," said Hurtha.	10
7	97	"It is more peaceful now," said Hurtha.	10
8	8	"What is it?" asked Hurtha.	10
8	23	"I am coming with you," said Hurtha.	10
8	30	Hurtha took his ax from the wagon and followed me.	10
8	57	Hurtha looked about, uneasily.	10
8	65	"Ar has struck," said Hurtha, grimly.	10
8	78	"Mercenaries," said Hurtha.	10
8	87	"Cosian mercenaries?" asked Hurtha.	10
8	102	"Jards," said Hurtha, in disgust.	10
8	107	"Jards!" said Hurtha.	10
8	117	"Shall we do so?" asked Hurtha.	10
8	122	Hurtha nodded.	10
8	124	Hurtha walked back to the top of a small rise in the road.	10
8	148	"War," said Hurtha.	10
8	150	"Those of Ar?" "We do not know," said Hurtha.	10
9	2	Hurtha and I, on foot beside the wagon, could not yet see them.	10
9	3	"It will be more Cosian cavalry," said Hurtha.	10
9	8	Boabissia, now again on the wagon box, beside Mincon, looked down at Hurtha, frightened.	10
9	34	Hurtha was close to the side of the wagon.	10
9	93	"Mercenaries, from the north," said Mincon to the captain, indicating Hurtha and myself.	10
9	101	"No," said Hurtha.	10
9	111	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
9	133	"Why did you not protect me?" Boabissia asked Hurtha.	10
9	134	"Did you see how he looked at her?" Hurtha said to me.	10
9	136	"Why did you not protect me from his insolence, Hurtha?" she demanded.	10
9	137	"Does Boabissia need protection?" asked Hurtha.	10
9	139	"What are our finances?" asked Hurtha.	10
9	141	"What are we to do?" asked Hurtha, concerned.	10
9	143	"We can strip Boabissia and sell her," said Hurtha.	10
9	144	"Hurtha!" cried Boabissia.	10
9	148	"She is not worth so much as the slaves," said Hurtha, "but doubtless she would bring something".	10
9	151	"But if we sell her," said Hurtha, "she would no longer be a free woman".	10
9	156	"Not at all," said Hurtha.	10
9	158	"Come now," said Hurtha.	10
9	163	"Where do slaves come from?" asked Hurtha.	10
9	169	"Oh!" Hurtha's hand was on her ankle.	10
9	182	"But she might not bring much," said Hurtha, disconsolately.	10
9	185	"I gather," said Hurtha, "that you do not wish for me to accept spontaneous gifts from total strangers, or apply to them for loans".	10
9	189	"How then can we make some money?" asked Hurtha.	10
9	191	"Work?" asked Hurtha, in horror.	10
9	196	"Rule it out," said Hurtha.	10
9	201	"I, personally, on the other hand," said Hurtha, "would not consider one or two meals thrust as a wedge between myself and starvation to be beneath contempt".	10
9	204	"That would clear supper and breakfast," said Hurtha.	10
9	205	"I have a few coins left," I informed Hurtha.	10
9	206	"I thought you were merely being noble," said Hurtha.	10
9	209	"That is almost poetic," said Hurtha, impressed.	10
9	211	I had forgotten that Hurtha was a poet.	10
9	214	Still, when all was said and done, what could that matter? "Aha!" said Hurtha.	10
9	216	"I have an idea!" said Hurtha.	10
9	222	"No," said Hurtha.	10
9	225	"But it may be every bit as good, or better, than that one," said Hurtha.	10
9	227	"Would you like to hear it?" asked Hurtha of me.	10
9	230	"Surely you would have no objection to our selling a few things," said Hurtha.	10
9	232	"Me?" "Not yet, at least," said Hurtha.	10
9	252	Hurtha's bag was still in the wagon.	10
9	261	"Hurtha is a clever, splendid fellow.	10
11	7	Indeed, it was the merchant from Tabor, that portly fellow who had been so inflexibly and boorishly determined to retrieve a gift, one which he had bestowed, of his own free will, as I had pointed out to him, on one of the fellows traveling with me, Hurtha, as I recalled.	10
11	20	"To one who is called Hurtha," said the fellow.	10
11	27	It did not seem to me a very complimentary way, incidentally, in which to refer to Hurtha.	10
11	37	To be sure, Hurtha was illiterate, like most Alars.	10
11	43	And poets such as Hurtha, it seemed to me, were even less likely to be deterred by illiteracy than many others.	10
11	77	One thing about Hurtha.	10
11	82	Still, it seemed that a silver tarsk was a high price to pay for a poem, even if it were as good as one of Hurtha's, particularly one one had to copy oneself.	10
11	95	"Alas," said Hurtha, coming up to me, disconsolately, "I fear I have made a terrible mistake".	10
11	113	"It was a terrible mistake," said Hurtha.	10
11	130	"Yes," said Hurtha, looking up at me.	10
11	135	"No!" cried Hurtha.	10
11	140	What a fool I was! My poems, gone! Sold for a mere four silver tarsks! Waste! Dishonor! Misery! Ruin! Tragedy! What if this story should ever get back to the wagons? I am unworthy of my scars!" "Hurtha, old fellow," I said, gently.	10
11	171	"Are you all right?" asked Hurtha.	10
11	179	"I am not surprised that a small mistake, perhaps a poorly formed letter, an irregular margin, or such, might have been made," said Hurtha.	10
11	184	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
11	187	"Few of us do," said Hurtha.	10
11	190	"A tragedy, yes," said Hurtha, "but I have others".	10
11	200	"I understand," said Hurtha.	10
11	214	Hurtha looked at Feiqa.	10
11	221	"Oh, yes," said Hurtha, dismissing her then from his mind.	10
11	224	Hurtha, however, I thought, apparently correctly, might prefer having his poems transcribed by free folks.	10
11	227	Hurtha consulted his internal states.	10
11	236	"What are we to do?" asked Hurtha.	10
11	242	Hurtha and I looked at one another.	10
11	243	"You take her left hand and I will take her right," said Hurtha.	10
11	247	I tied her left wrist back to one of the spokes, and Hurtha, similarly, fastened her right wrist back, to another spoke.	10
11	249	"You have seen several of the fellows about looking at Boabissia, haven't you?" asked Hurtha of me.	10
11	253	"It is time you earned your keep, Boabissia," said Hurtha.	10
11	255	"I am a free woman!" "I think I can round up a few interested fellows," said Hurtha.	10
11	258	"She wanted her ankles untied," said Hurtha.	10
11	261	"Do not untie my ankles!" Hurtha dropped the ankle cords to one side.	10
11	264	Hurtha left the vicinity of the wagon.	10
11	310	Hurtha happily shook the copper bowl.	10
11	345	"Did Hurtha have me?" she asked.	10
12	32	"Hurtha," I said, "wake up".	10
12	45	"It is very early," said Hurtha.	10
12	52	"Get up, Hurtha," I said.	10
12	78	"I had never thought much about it," said Hurtha, "but now that I reflect actively upon the matter, no.	10
12	93	Hurtha was one of the few folks I had ever known who had the capacity to fall asleep like lightning.	10
12	98	Still, if they did, Hurtha might have escaped, sleeping through the slaughter.	10
13	11	"I want my ax," said Hurtha.	10
13	32	"I want my ax," said Hurtha.	10
13	63	I was behind him, closely, and then came Hurtha, and then, close behind him, Boabissia.	10
13	64	Behind Boabissia, ropes on their necks, the captor's termini of these hempen confinements in the grip of Hurtha, came Feiqa and Tula.	10
14	91	"I would think so," said Hurtha, righteously, adding "whatever a letter of safety might be".	10
14	95	"Between now and when we receive the letters?" asked Hurtha, incredulously.	10
14	98	"I am an Alar," said Hurtha.	10
14	100	"My letter of safety would be my ax," said Hurtha, "if I had it".	10
14	103	"I have sometimes had that experience," said Hurtha.	10
14	105	"What can you expect?" said Hurtha.	10
14	108	"I know," said Hurtha.	10
14	110	"Civilization is bizarre," said Hurtha.	10
14	121	"I think you are right," said Hurtha.	10
14	126	"You are my harshest critic," said Hurtha.	10
14	128	"That is why you are my harshest critic," said Hurtha.	10
14	135	"I have revised it," said Hurtha.	10
14	143	"Would you care to hear two poems?" asked Hurtha.	10
14	152	Hurtha dropped their leashes to the tiles beside them.	10
14	154	"Would you care to hear two poems?" Hurtha asked the officer at the table.	10
16	19	Nearby, Hurtha and Boabissia were asleep.	10
16	410	I had reservations about taking Hurtha and Boabissia into danger.	10
16	417	I had little doubt, however, that Hurtha would cheerfully come along, if asked, and perhaps if not asked, abounding with his customary indefatigable optimism whatever might be the odds.	10
16	421	If Hurtha came with me, however, it seemed that Boabissia should be left behind.	10
16	430	If I did that, of course, I might miss out on some of Hurtha's new poems.	10
16	434	I wondered if I should speak to Hurtha and Boabissia.	10
16	1014	"Even Hurtha is up".	10
16	1016	It was well known that Hurtha often slept past dawn.	10
16	1026	Hurtha, too, naturally, is undeterred".	10
16	1038	"Hurtha is composing such a poem?" I asked.	10
16	1048	"Tal, Rarius!" called Hurtha, heartily.	10
16	1075	"Do not resist," I said to Hurtha.	10
16	1097	"Now, move, all of you!" I resheathed the steel and, with Hurtha and Boabissia, now again followed by Feiqa, moved with the throng down the Avenue of Adminius toward the great gate of Torcadino.	10
16	1191	"You are not an Alar woman," said Hurtha.	10
16	1194	I supposed if Hurtha had encountered Boabissia under somewhat different circumstances his relationship to her would have been considerably different, for example, if he had bought her in a slave market.	10
16	1214	Hurtha roared with laughter.	10
16	1221	"I am an Alar," said Hurtha.	10
16	1231	"You see?" she asked Hurtha.	10
16	1232	Hurtha snorted with derision.	10
16	1233	"Am I not attractive, Hurtha?" she asked.	10
16	1239	Hurtha stopped laughing.	10
16	1243	"Do not fear, Hurtha," she said, "you big simple beast, that pleasure will never be yours".	10
16	1244	Hurtha did not respond, but glared angrily, fixedly ahead.	10
16	1337	"Would you care to hear my latest poem now," asked Hurtha, "that which lightly chides those lazy fellows who choose upon occasion to sleep late?" "Of course," I said, grimly.	10
16	1338	"It is a jolly poem," Hurtha informed me.	10
16	1340	"'Awake, abominable sluggards!'" quoth Hurtha.	10
16	1342	"'Arise, loathsome miscreants!'" said Hurtha.	10
16	1344	"Certainly not," said Hurtha.	10
16	1348	"Definitely," said Hurtha, chuckling.	10
16	1350	"I am versatile," Hurtha reminded me.	10
16	1353	"I have a lighter side," said Hurtha, "though doubtless only those who know me well have detected it.	10
16	1356	"You may believe me in the matter," said Hurtha.	10
16	1360	"I shall begin again," said Hurtha.	10
16	1361	"'Get up, you odious, foul, stinking, dawdling sleen!'" said Hurtha.	10
16	1369	"'Up, up, I say, inert tarsks, vile, loathsome, somnolent slimy urts!'" cried Hurtha.	10
16	1372	"'It is noon!'" called out Hurtha.	10
16	1377	"I told you it was funny," laughed Hurtha, bent over.	10
16	1382	"You see," explained Hurtha, patiently, "I did not say it was morning.	10
16	1438	Boabissia and I, then, followed by Hurtha and Feiqa, she bearing my pack, set out, with others, toward the pennons.	10
16	1473	"Splendid!" said Hurtha.	10
16	1482	I then crossed it, too, the plank bending under my weight, and was followed by Boabissia, and Hurtha, and Feiqa.	10
16	1531	"There," said Hurtha, pointing, "there are the pens for camp girls".	10
16	1598	"Come along," said Hurtha.	10
16	1617	"Do not strike her," said Hurtha.	10
16	1657	"You have not yet heard my entire poem," said Hurtha.	10
16	1659	Then, for several Ehn, he altering lines here and there, with a liberal abandon, subjecting the piece, it seemed, to immediate and amazing revisions, rampant and wholesale, doubtless justified by certain disputable if not heinous exploitations of poetic license, generously construed, I was regaled b...	10
16	1672	"It well might do so," he said, "for it is a genuine Hurtha".	10
16	1678	"A splendid suggestion!" cried Hurtha.	10
16	1681	"Thank you, Sir," said Hurtha.	10
16	1685	"Rejoice," said Hurtha to him.	10
16	1688	Hurtha was, after all, carrying a large ax.	10
16	1689	"But what if you discard your poem," I asked, "feeling as you often do, that it may not be up to your incredible standards, or what if you should be struck heavily upon the head, as I could conceive happening, sometimes more readily than others, and simply forget it?" "I see your point," said Hurtha...	10
16	1693	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
16	1694	"Suppose, thinking himself immortal," I said, "he then lives recklessly, fearing nothing, takes unwise risks gleefully and perhaps suffers unfortunate and grievous consequences?" "I had not thought of that," admitted Hurtha.	10
16	1696	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
16	1699	"True," moaned Hurtha.	10
16	1700	"What am I to do?" "Is this that poem about fellows who sleep late," asked Gnieus, "that one you have been carrying on about for the past ten Ehn?" "Yes," said Hurtha.	10
16	1702	"The fourth Ahn?" cried Hurtha, aghast.	10
16	1705	"Oh," said Hurtha.	10
16	1708	"I am afraid I cannot dedicate my poem to you," said Hurtha.	10
16	1711	"What?" cried Hurtha.	10
16	1715	"That is very expensive," said Hurtha.	10
16	1717	"Do we have a silver tarsk?" asked Hurtha.	10
16	1719	"Never!" cried Hurtha, resolved.	10
16	1723	"What a scoundrel," growled Hurtha, looking after him.	10
16	1727	Could that be? "Perhaps I shall have to dedicate the poem to you, after all," said Hurtha.	10
16	1734	"I think," said Hurtha, looking back, "I shall compose a poem, a mood piece".	10
16	1739	"Good fellow," said Hurtha.	10
16	1746	"Thank you," said Hurtha.	10
16	1749	"No," said Hurtha.	10
16	1752	"Let us go," said Hurtha.	10
16	1756	"It is very beautiful," said Hurtha, "as was observed even by Boabissia, who is only a female".	10
16	1762	"Interesting," said Hurtha.	10
16	1764	"That seems very strange, does it not?" asked Hurtha.	10
16	1768	"How can they be so sure that Ar will not come to the relief of Torcadino?" asked Hurtha.	10
16	1773	"What can explain such things?" asked Hurtha.	10
17	10	In a few Ehn Boabissia, Hurtha and I, and Feiqa, would be again on our way.	10
17	31	"We had better get Hurtha," I said.	10
17	37	"Hurry!" "Yes, Mistress!" "Do you wish to be switched for dawdling?" "No, Mistress!" Boabissia then went to awaken Hurtha.	10
18	11	"I think little treasure moves these days upon this road," said Hurtha.	10
18	13	"Will the Cosians take this route?" asked Hurtha.	10
18	19	"Look," I said to Hurtha.	10
18	300	She did not meet my eyes, then, nor those of Hurtha, nor, I think, of any of the other men in the cart.	10
19	2	"What are gone?" asked Hurtha, sitting up in the furs, a few feet from me.	10
19	20	"Why would it be replaced?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	46	"Are such papers needed at the checkpoint?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	82	"Perhaps you," said Hurtha, coming up behind Boabissia and holding her by the upper arms, from behind.	10
19	86	She was as helpless as a slave in Hurtha's grip.	10
19	87	"Perhaps it is you who should be put under torture," growled Hurtha.	10
19	91	"Do you know of such a person?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	93	"Who?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	95	"Who?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	102	"Some of the carts, and many of the refugees, have already left," said Boabissia, pulling free of Hurtha's hands, he loosening his grip.	10
19	113	Boabissia made as though to accompany me, but Hurtha's hand on her arm stayed her.	10
19	275	"Waiting, waiting," complained Hurtha.	10
19	282	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
19	284	"'Lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" began Hurtha.	10
19	287	"No," said Hurtha, "already there are more than a half dozen.	10
19	293	"'Lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" said Hurtha.	10
19	298	"Then do not interrupt," said Hurtha.	10
19	302	"What?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	304	"Yes," agreed Hurtha, somewhat suspiciously.	10
19	311	I think she was prejudiced somewhat by her affection for the stocky larl, Hurtha.	10
19	318	"Be pleased that Hurtha does not strike you to the ground with a heavy blow," said Boabissia.	10
19	321	"If I may continue," said Hurtha.	10
19	323	"'Those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, they make me tired, those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" said Hurtha.	10
19	326	"'I do not like them, those long lines, those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" said Hurtha.	10
19	328	"That is the first verse," said Hurtha.	10
19	331	"You need not listen if you do not wish to," said Hurtha.	10
19	339	"You do not like it?" asked Hurtha.	10
19	349	Hurtha burst out laughing and, tears in his eyes, seized me by the arms.	10
19	351	"My poor, dear sweet friend," said Hurtha.	10
19	357	I was so overawed by Hurtha's exposition that the so-called Philebus might then have slipped away unnoticed, but when I checked he had not done so.	10
19	361	I felt a sudden twinge of jealousy for Hurtha.	10
19	363	Hurtha then regaled us with his poem, which, truly, seemed to capture something of the inscrutability and ponderousness of the institution which had inspired it.	10
19	368	The so-called Philebus seemed as though he might desire to withdraw from our vicinity now and then, even giving up his place in line, particularly when Hurtha would come to an often-repeated, stirring refrain, but my hand on his collar kept him in his place.	10
19	369	I will not attempt to give Hurtha's poem in its entirety, but I think I may have suggested something of its drift already.	10
19	373	And certainly the mere reading of it could scarcely convey the impact of hearing it proclaimed in the living voice, and particularly in a voice such as Hurtha's.	10
19	374	The line had been moving along rapidly enough, incongruous though this might have seemed, given the thesis of Hurtha's poem.	10
19	382	"A surly fellow," remarked Hurtha, somewhat offended.	10
19	398	"He seems familiar," admitted Hurtha.	10
19	410	"Hold my place," I said to Hurtha.	10
19	411	"I do not think any will strive to take it," said Hurtha, adjusting his ax on his shoulder, cheerfully looking about himself.	10
19	439	"That is right," said Hurtha.	10
19	454	My friend is Hurtha, an Alar.	10
20	70	I bought some wedges of Sa-Tarna bread and slices of dried tarsk meat, taking some and giving the rest to Boabissia and Hurtha.	10
21	28	"If they do bother us," said Hurtha, "it is my hope that they are carrying coins".	10
21	47	"No," said Hurtha.	10
21	50	"That is true," said Hurtha.	10
21	220	"Good," said Hurtha, approvingly.	10
21	272	"I am thirsty," said Hurtha, going toward a fountain.	10
21	275	Hurtha leaned his ax against the fountain and thrust his head half in the water and then pulled it out sputtering.	10
21	305	"That was good," said Hurtha, wiping his mouth.	10
21	318	"Those are palace guardsmen, aren't they?" asked Hurtha.	10
21	374	"Which way are we going?" asked Hurtha.	10
21	385	"No," said Hurtha.	10
22	15	Then came Hurtha.	10
22	242	"Hand up the pack," I said to Hurtha.	10
22	244	Hurtha removed it from her back, and stood on the lower rungs, lifting it up to me.	10
22	263	Below, Hurtha grinned.	10
22	266	"Here is the lamp," said the proprietor, handing it to Hurtha.	10
22	269	I took the lamp from Hurtha and lifted it up.	10
22	309	"What do you think?" I asked Hurtha.	10
22	310	"It is splendid," said Hurtha.	10
22	315	"There, you see," said Hurtha.	10
22	407	Hurtha was sitting to one side, cross-legged.	10
23	1	The Day of Generosity and Petitions "Hurtha!" I protested.	10
23	5	"Here is his ribbon," said Hurtha cheerily, holding it above grasping hands.	10
23	8	"Perhaps," admitted Hurtha, thrusting the ribbon to me.	10
23	11	Hurtha's elbow, with a lateral stroke of great force, discouraged a fellow from snatching at the ribbon.	10
23	30	"It is done with an ax," said Hurtha, "from the bottom, up through the neck".	10
23	32	"An ax much like this," said Hurtha, holding the great, broad blade before the fellow's face, from behind.	10
23	34	"Did you wish to speak to a guardsman?" asked Hurtha.	10
23	37	"I have no idea," said Hurtha.	10
23	39	Hurtha then dropped him to the stones and he scurried away.	10
23	40	"There may be a problem," I admitted to Hurtha.	10
23	46	"What could they do to you?" asked Hurtha.	10
23	48	"Even if they boiled you in oil," said Hurtha, "as that is normally done, it could be done only once, or, at any rate, only once that would be likely to be of any interest to you".	10
23	50	"The only thing you truly need to fear," said Hurtha, "is that your honor might be lost".	10
23	53	"Of course not," said Hurtha.	10
23	57	"You could always sing," said Hurtha.	10
23	64	"Perhaps," said Hurtha.	10
23	94	He might have found his humor a bit less delightful had he seen Hurtha behind him with his ax.	10
23	95	Hurtha lowered the ax.	10
23	107	"You, there," said the Taurentian to Hurtha.	10
23	119	Hurtha had given it to me.	10
23	123	I had had difficulty in getting Hurtha up this morning.	10
24	17	Hurtha and I had returned around noon to the insula, after leaving the area before the Central Cylinder.	10
24	60	"It looks like a fine house?" asked Hurtha.	10
24	66	"She will not object to that either," said Hurtha.	10
24	70	"There are some fine houses in this district," said Hurtha, "particularly over several blocks.	10
24	145	"The wall is impressive and the gate is strong," observed Hurtha.	10
24	170	Boabissia smiled at Hurtha and myself.	10
24	291	Boabissia glanced at Hurtha and myself.	10
24	341	"You see!" cried Boabissia, almost leaping in place, elatedly, triumphantly to Hurtha and myself.	10
24	358	"What is going on?" asked Hurtha.	10
24	376	She then looked at Hurtha.	10
24	377	"When you were found I was only a small boy," said Hurtha.	10
24	385	Hurtha nodded.	10
24	387	"No," said Hurtha.	10
24	436	Hurtha made a noise of approval, pleased at seeing Boabissia under male command.	10
24	468	He turned to face Hurtha and myself.	10
24	492	"I had not realized Boabissia was so valuable," said Hurtha.	10
24	493	Boabissia glanced at Hurtha, startled.	10
24	495	Boabissia looked away from Hurtha then, swiftly, not daring to meet his eyes.	10
24	518	"Indeed," said Hurtha, approvingly.	10
25	9	He had entertained Hurtha and myself, sharing some fine paga with us, of the House of Temus, my favorite, after Boabissia had been removed from the room, presumably to be transported to his house of business.	10
25	66	I had come to the Tunnels in response to a message, delivered to me by Achiates, the owner of the insula in which Hurtha and I were rooming.	10
25	425	I had left Hurtha at the insula, with Feiqa, though by now, a lusty fellow, he was doubtless somewhere else on the street, Feiqa left behind, chained to her ring in the room.	10
29	21	Have you anything particular in mind? Has the room been damaged?" I feared Hurtha might have been practicing with his ax.	10
29	23	Hurtha had the habit of composing orally.	10
29	29	"Hurtha and Feiqa, the slave?" I asked.	10
29	125	"What is going on here?" asked Hurtha, coming up to us.	10
29	126	"Do not interfere," I said to Hurtha.	10
29	127	"It appears," said Hurtha, unshouldering his ax, "that a battle to the death is in order".	10
29	131	"Greetings," said Hurtha.	10
29	132	Hurtha was a friendly Alar.	10
29	137	"There?" said Hurtha.	10
29	139	Hurtha, too, I suspected, had not had a great deal of sleep last night.	10
29	145	"I am coming with you," said Hurtha.	10
29	147	"Look after Feiqa," I said to Hurtha.	10
29	148	"Do not think you can rid yourself of a tenacious comrade so easily," said Hurtha.	10
29	156	"Hurtha," I pleaded.	10
29	161	"Was it pretty?" asked Hurtha.	10
29	168	"Well, farewell," said Hurtha.	10
29	170	"Yes," said Hurtha.	10
29	176	Hurtha, now at threshold of the insula of Achiates, waved cheerily.	10
29	177	I wondered if killing an Alar, Hurtha, in particular, would count, strictly, legally, as an act of murder, or if there were some more sensible, benign category under which it might fall.	10