Results

Pertinax

Book 29. (497 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	115	Did Pertinax himself, our supposed forester, attend to such things? Were there other slaves about? "I suppose," I said to Pertinax, "you obtain little news here, so far from Port Kar".	10
5	355	Let her, a proud, insolent free woman of Earth, used to the men of Earth, such as Pertinax, men whom she despised and might affront with impunity, and upon occasion, in virtue doubtless of wealth and authority, command, have to behave before me, and before Pertinax, as a mere slave.	10
9	238	"White," she said, "does not!" "I am Pertinax," said Pertinax.	10
10	740	"Your name is Pertinax?" said Lord Nishida to Pertinax.	10
11	327	"Please tell Master Pertinax that Saru, the slave, as the slave she is, with lowered head, begs Master Pertinax to see her, humbly begs it".	10
11	369	"Tomorrow," she said, "may I seek out Master Pertinax, and inform him of the petition of a stable slave?" Pertinax was currently housed in one of the barracks occupied by the loggers.	10
15	1	I Have Purchased a Slave for Pertinax; I Learn Something of the Lessons of Pertinax "He is a barbarian, Master!" cried the slave, distressed.	10
18	253	"Doubtless for the same reason that the Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers would, if she dared, not treat Pertinax well," said Pertinax.	10
18	279	"Or Jane Pertinax?" "Perhaps because we are weak," said Pertinax.	10
2	1	Pertinax; A Vessel Will Not Beach "Come forward," said the fellow, gesturing toward the forest.	10
2	261	"My name," said he, "is Pertinax".	10
2	314	He who designated himself as Pertinax then smiled, and looked upon the kneeling slave, who, as was suitable, had been silent, as she had been unaddressed, and in the presence of free persons.	10
2	324	"Girl," said Pertinax to the slave.	10
2	338	"Yes," said Pertinax, after a time.	10
2	350	"A Pleasure Slave," said Pertinax, approvingly.	10
2	354	"I have never heard of it," said Pertinax.	10
2	359	"Is she any good?" asked Pertinax.	10
2	385	"Come back, into the trees," said Pertinax, anxiously.	10
2	435	"Hurry! Hurry!" called Pertinax, back amongst the trees.	10
2	439	"Come," said Pertinax.	10
2	452	"I do not know," said Pertinax.	10
3	1	We Sup with Pertinax; Constantina "Is she First Girl, Master?" asked Cecily, angrily.	10
3	6	"Do not quarrel," said Pertinax, affably.	10
3	12	Pertinax and I were sitting, cross-legged, waiting to be served.	10
3	33	I wondered if Pertinax was Gorean.	10
3	80	Had she never served so, humbly, hoping to please, fearing the switch if she did not? "No, no," said Pertinax, soothingly.	10
3	140	I had then more evidence that our friend, Pertinax, and perhaps his slave, Constantina, were not what they pretended to be.	10
3	150	Constantina cast a swift glance at me, and Pertinax looked down.	10
3	160	"You are of the warriors, I take it," said Pertinax.	10
3	162	"You carry yourself as a warrior," said Pertinax.	10
3	176	"You are a tarnsman, are you not?" asked Pertinax.	10
3	218	"But you are a tarnsman, are you not?" persisted Pertinax.	10
3	221	"I think the tabuk strips, the suls and turpah, the soup, all, must be ready," said Pertinax.	10
3	224	"There is paga," said Pertinax.	10
3	226	"Yes," said Pertinax.	10
3	228	"Yes," said Pertinax.	10
3	230	"I am glad to hear it," said Pertinax.	10
3	234	"He is right," said Pertinax, cautiously.	10
3	239	Cecily, kneeling, head down, placed one of the bowls before Pertinax, which was proper, as he was the host.	10
3	249	"You have a Home Stone here somewhere?" I said to Pertinax.	10
3	253	"This is an outpost hut," said Pertinax, "a temporary place, a mere domicile of convenience.	10
3	262	She put down her trencher, on a small stand to the side, and, bending down, handed a trencher to Pertinax.	10
3	272	She looked at Pertinax, angrily, but he merely smiled.	10
3	304	I glanced to Pertinax, to see if he objected to my treatment of the slave.	10
3	308	Pertinax was not a forester.	10
3	309	"Perhaps the slaves may now feed," said Pertinax.	10
3	318	I stole a glance at Pertinax, and noted that he, as I had suspected would be the case, was almost aflame with admiration and awe, with delight and envy.	10
3	327	"Perhaps," I said to Pertinax, "you might similarly feed your girl".	10
3	329	"That will not be necessary," said Pertinax.	10
3	331	Pertinax made as though to rise, but I motioned him to remain as he was, and he, with a glance at Constantina, a glance almost apologetic, resumed his position.	10
3	338	"Is she a pleasure slave?" I asked Pertinax.	10
3	345	"Any woman can be made a pleasure slave," I informed Pertinax.	10
3	348	"Where is your whip?" I asked Pertinax.	10
3	349	"I have none," said Pertinax.	10
3	354	"She has a standing permission to speak," said Pertinax, hastily.	10
3	356	Pertinax was silent, and looked away.	10
3	361	"Let us have paga," said Pertinax, quickly, affably.	10
3	363	She seemed startled, but no more so, I think, than Pertinax.	10
3	365	By now it was overwhelmingly clear that Constantina's relationship to Pertinax was not that of a slave to her master, even should she be a slave, perhaps in some legal sense.	10
3	389	She approached Pertinax.	10
3	393	Pertinax much enjoyed, I could tell, having her on her knees before him.	10
3	395	I wondered if, somewhere, there might not be a man in Pertinax.	10
3	396	Again, she extended the goblet to Pertinax.	10
3	408	"I protest," said Pertinax.	10
3	435	"Ai!" said Pertinax, softly.	10
3	453	Constantina turned to Pertinax, unwillingly, it seemed, the goblet at her breasts.	10
3	455	Keep your eyes on your own master, slave!" Constantina turned back to Pertinax.	10
3	459	Pertinax, it seemed, would almost forget to accept the cup.	10
3	466	"True," said Pertinax.	10
3	476	Pertinax seemed unable to take his eyes from her.	10
3	484	"I thank you for your hospitality," I said to Pertinax.	10
3	491	"Perhaps we should talk," I said to Pertinax.	10
3	495	"By all means," said Pertinax, uncertainly.	10
3	503	"Migratory tarns," said Pertinax.	10
3	518	"They are not mounted," said Pertinax.	10
3	521	"Be quiet, you fool!" Pertinax subsided, and looked down.	10
3	529	I then returned to the hut, and resumed my place, cross-legged, across from Pertinax.	10
3	530	"I have no interest in killing you," I said to Pertinax, "but I think we should talk".	10
3	541	"I know nothing of Priest-Kings and Kurii," said Pertinax.	10
3	543	"Men," repeated Pertinax.	10
3	563	"What is its nature?" "I know little of it," said Pertinax, "but I can link you with those who do".	10
3	598	"She is from New York City," said Pertinax.	10
3	636	"Perhaps she will work herself free," said Pertinax.	10
3	638	Pertinax looked at her, puzzled.	10
3	640	"I see," said Pertinax.	10
3	642	"We must bring her in, instantly," said Pertinax, "and free her!" "Shortly," I said.	10
3	658	"I cannot go out," said Pertinax, turning white.	10
3	669	"Bring her in," said Pertinax.	10
3	692	I picked her up, and carried her into the hut, and Pertinax, gratefully, closed and bolted the door.	10
3	696	"No!" cried Pertinax.	10
3	701	Pertinax regarded her with visible excitement.	10
3	704	"There are blankets," said Pertinax.	10
3	708	Pertinax did not respond.	10
3	710	"Certainly," said Pertinax.	10
3	725	Pertinax crouched down beside Constantina.	10
3	729	"You, Pertinax, are master.	10
3	732	"Surely not," protested Pertinax.	10
3	737	Constantina, on all fours, head down, her long hair to the floor, crawled to Pertinax, bent down, and kissed his feet.	10
3	739	"Ai!" cried Pertinax, half in consternation, half in delight.	10
3	740	"Well?" I asked Pertinax.	10
3	742	"You may do so," said Pertinax, his voice unsteady.	10
3	760	"Pertinax," I said, "take your slave, and put her to use".	10
3	761	"No, no!" said Pertinax, frightened.	10
3	767	"You spoke of entanglement," said Pertinax.	10
3	789	"What are we to do?" asked Pertinax.	10
4	3	I had left the hut of Pertinax a few Ehn earlier.	10
4	18	It had seemed likely to me that I would have been met by agents of Priest-Kings, but I had encountered only Pertinax, and a woman called 'Constantina'.	10
4	31	I was less certain of the fate of male agents, such as Pertinax.	10
4	45	On the other hand, I had detected little or no uneasiness on the part of Pertinax or his slave, Constantina, which might have appertained to such a deed.	10
4	51	When I had left the hut of Pertinax, or the hut he utilized, he, and Cecily, had been asleep.	10
4	54	It interested me that Pertinax had identified Constantina as his superior.	10
4	68	These coordinates, too, or, better, the locale in question, would have been made clear to Pertinax and Constantina.	10
4	71	As indicated earlier, I was reasonably sure that neither Constantina nor Pertinax were harboring any surreptitious knowledge of murders recently wrought.	10
4	72	If such murders had taken place I did not think that Kurii would have risked entrusting Constantina or Pertinax with a cognizance so dreadful and solemn, lest it be betrayed by some careless word, some inadvertent expression, a surprising hesitation, some gauche, unwary phrase, or pause.	10
4	122	Pertinax tells me that there have been many of them.	10
4	153	"Yes," she said, "that is it!" "But you feared to be caught, unengaged in labors, lest Pertinax, your master, beat you for dalliance?" "You have found me out," she said, sadly.	10
4	158	"It is hard to know whether there is a man in Pertinax or not," I said.	10
4	180	"And your master is Pertinax?" I said.	10
4	184	"That is a cruel thing to do, and Pertinax, my master, has not had it done to me".	10
4	225	"Should it not identify you as the property of Pertinax, of Port Kar?" "It is a plain collar," she said.	10
4	232	It seemed clear to me, from what I had seen of her relationship with Pertinax, her supposed master, he would not have it.	10
4	264	"I do not think Pertinax will mind," I said.	10
4	281	"You and Pertinax," I said.	10
4	285	I was approached on Earth, and it was I who recruited he whom you know as Pertinax".	10
4	289	"I was given a retainer of one hundred thousand dollars," she said, "and so, too, was Pertinax, and we are to receive one million dollars each at the accomplishment of our mission".	10
4	371	"But you have not yet explained your role here," I said, "nor that of Pertinax".	10
4	380	"One came in yesterday," I said, "from which were disembarked, following the surmises of Pertinax, your subordinate, and not master, bandits, brigands, or such".	10
4	415	"We were brought here, Pertinax and I, by a disk craft, and told to wait for you," she wept.	10
4	417	Pertinax knows the place.	10
4	435	She then cried out in misery, and disappeared into the trees, presumably to warn Pertinax.	10
4	440	To be sure, I did not think she had anything to fear from Pertinax.	10
4	448	I suspected that Constantina would by now be at the hut, begging, perhaps on her knees, in her desperation, and as she was now clothed, Pertinax to flee.	10
5	226	Instead I had been met by Pertinax.	10
5	288	"You are to enter the forest," said Sullius Maximus, "and seek out a forester, by name, Pertinax.	10
5	317	Sullius Maximus would have had no way of knowing that I had already made the acquaintance of Pertinax and Lady Constantina, nor in any event would this have much mattered.	10
5	321	What I had learned from Pertinax and Lady Constantina, of course, was rather similar to that which I had learned from Sullius Maximus, which was only to be expected, as they, though perhaps unbeknownst to one another, were in league.	10
5	322	From Pertinax I had gathered the rendezvous in the forest might take place tomorrow, or soon thereafter.	10
5	331	I rather doubted that she would be given to Pertinax, as he seemed still much of Earth.	10
5	335	I decided to return to the hut of Pertinax.	10
5	345	I did not think she would inform Pertinax that I now knew her secret.	10
5	347	It would be important to her, surely, to try to retain her pretense of bondage, at least before Pertinax, when I was present.	10
5	353	So now it seemed to me that I might well behave toward Lady Constantina, as before, as though I still accepted her as, and believed her to be, the slave of Pertinax.	10
5	381	Pertinax, for example, who seemed a nice enough fellow, might be punished for having failed his more remote employers.	10
5	397	I would return to the hut of Pertinax.	10
5	402	Yesterday I had gathered from Pertinax that ships, perhaps several, had come to the local shores, and disembarked fellows of a sort whose acquaintance he was not eager to make.	10
5	421	Pertinax would have fled such fellows, I suppose, but I was curious as to their origin, and their business here, in this remote area.	10
5	450	It was a laugh which would not have reassured Pertinax.	10
5	972	I wondered if Pertinax might have felt sorry for them.	10
5	1172	I would now return to the hut of Pertinax.	10
6	2	I was now accompanying Pertinax, deeply into the forest, being led, I supposed, to the alleged rendezvous with one whom I had been led to believe would be an agent of Priest-Kings.	10
6	7	"We are not in the reserves of Port Kar," I said to Pertinax.	10
6	38	"What are you doing?" had asked Pertinax, uneasily, not that I think he much minded seeing Constantina as she then was.	10
6	44	What would it be, if she were truly a slave? Would that not be pleasant for a fellow? She did not object, of course, to the hooding and binding, as she was desperate to keep up her pretense of bondage before Pertinax.	10
6	63	Later unhooded, they would have no idea where they were, or how they had gotten there, nor where Pertinax's hut might be found.	10
6	64	The best they might do, given the time of day and the location of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of Gor and Earth, would be to reach the coast, but, even so, would the hut of Pertinax lie to the north or south? And, of course, an isolated woman, or women, on Gor, undefended b...	10
6	71	Pertinax seemed pleased that the proud Constantina had begged, and had said "Please".	10
7	10	"Have you been here before?" I asked Pertinax.	10
7	33	"Apparently," I said to Pertinax, "your slave wishes one or more additional, corrective strokes of the switch".	10
7	39	"Hold still," said Pertinax.	10
7	41	"Wait," I said to Pertinax.	10
7	44	"Please," she said, to Pertinax, in a voice venomous with irony, "unhood me," adding, "—Master," in a tone of voice which was more than anything else an insult.	10
7	46	She would not have addressed me, I was sure, as she did Pertinax.	10
7	70	"Rehood your slave," I said to Pertinax.	10
7	72	Constantina jerked angrily, futilely, at her bound wrists and cast Pertinax a look of fury, which seemed to dare him to comply with my instruction.	10
7	73	"Now," I said to Pertinax.	10
7	79	Pertinax had jerked the strings on the hood against the back of her neck, and had then knotted them snugly under her chin.	10
7	81	I think Pertinax enjoyed that.	10
7	87	I was pleased to see Pertinax draw Constantina to him, on the leash.	10
7	93	To be sure, I supposed that Pertinax might at present be still somewhat diffident about leash-mastering a female.	10
7	105	Pertinax made ready to lift Constantina in his arms.	10
7	122	In a moment then Pertinax had scooped up the Lady Constantina and had her over his shoulder, her head to the rear.	10
7	127	I was followed, momentarily, by Pertinax.	10
7	133	"There is the next sign," said Pertinax, pointing.	10
7	138	"Can you read this?" I asked Pertinax.	10
7	157	Pertinax offered me Constantina's leash.	10
7	166	"No!" said Pertinax, alarmed.	10
7	168	"They must!" insisted Pertinax.	10
7	172	"I do not understand," said Pertinax, obviously concerned.	10
7	175	"She has a standing permission to speak," said Pertinax, uneasily.	10
7	177	"Oh?" said Pertinax.	10
7	180	Pertinax looked at me, and I nodded.	10
7	188	"Something is wrong, is it not?" asked Pertinax.	10
7	201	"There are no larls this far north," said Pertinax.	10
7	203	Pertinax paled.	10
7	206	"Good," said Pertinax.	10
7	209	I recalled one had been in the vicinity of Pertinax's hut, when Constantina, who had annoyed me, had been put outside, gagged and bound, hands tied behind her, feet crossed, pulled up, and fastened closely to her hands, on the leaves.	10
7	216	"I wish I had a rifle," said Pertinax.	10
7	224	"I do not like this," said Pertinax.	10
7	232	"What are you doing?" asked Pertinax.	10
7	236	After Pertinax and I had fed, I went to Cecily, and knelt down, and she leaned forward, her hands tied behind her.	10
7	246	"Untie me," she said to Pertinax.	10
7	255	Constantina cast me a look of fury, but, I fear, it was a mild thing compared to that with which she regaled Pertinax, who looked hastily away.	10
7	262	Pertinax, obligingly, approached her, and knelt down beside her.	10
7	268	Pertinax leaned forward.	10
7	273	"Extend your hand to your slave," I said to Pertinax.	10
7	276	"Ai!" said Pertinax.	10
7	278	"You may now feed the slave," I informed Pertinax.	10
7	338	"What do you think of Pertinax?" I asked.	10
7	343	I turned about, and went to Pertinax.	10
8	4	"Does he know we are here?" asked Pertinax.	10
8	9	Pertinax assumed the suggested position, and, behind us, Cecily and Constantina knelt down.	10
8	27	"I have been told of such fellows," said Pertinax.	10
8	33	"Tuchuk," said Pertinax.	10
8	35	"Surely not all Tuchuks are disfigured," said Pertinax.	10
8	37	"Surely they are not all scarred," said Pertinax.	10
8	53	To be sure, it is dangerous to come on a sleeping warrior, which he would presumably take Pertinax to be.	10
8	62	When Pertinax awakened, he discovered my absence, doubtless to his considerable uneasiness, and had seemingly, swiftly, cast about to locate me, which event took place shortly.	10
8	65	He approached to within about fifteen feet of us, and Pertinax and I, which seemed appropriate, rose to our feet.	10
8	66	In this way, though I do not think Pertinax was aware of this, we showed him honor.	10
8	82	"Tal," said Pertinax.	10
8	115	I then turned to Pertinax.	10
8	117	"Very well," said Pertinax.	10
8	133	"We have located Cabot and brought him here," said Pertinax.	10
8	145	"Yes," said he whom I had thought of as Pertinax.	10
8	159	"Miss Wentworth," said Pertinax, for I shall continue to refer to him by this name, as it is familiar, and convenient, and as it would become his Gorean name, "is in disguise.	10
8	162	"Whilst I myself," said Pertinax, "assumed a disguise as a simple forester, assigned to the reserves of Port Kar".	10
8	164	Pertinax went to untie the wrists of Miss Wentworth.	10
8	166	"Wait," I told Pertinax.	10
8	173	"See here," said Pertinax, who, I am afraid, took the courteous attitude of our guide as timidity or diffidence, and as legitimating an occasion for aggressive, peremptory discourse, "Miss Wentworth and I have discharged our part of the bargain.	10
8	180	"Our home, you fool," said Pertinax.	10
8	183	Rougher, bluffer fellows might have discounted or dismissed Pertinax's rudeness as mere tastelessness or stupidity, or even found it amusing, but I did not think that this would be the case with Tajima.	10
8	192	Then I said to Pertinax, in English, "You are asking for your head to be cut off.	10
8	194	"He is a servant," said Pertinax to me, in English.	10
8	200	"I am sorry," said Pertinax to Tajima.	10
8	203	"Tell him," I said to Pertinax, in English, "that it is not he who was the fool, but you".	10
8	204	"I am the fool," said Pertinax to Tajima, in Gorean, "not you.	10
8	211	Tajima turned to Pertinax.	10
8	213	"Your apology," I said to Pertinax, "has been accepted".	10
8	217	"I am not a fool," said Tajima to Pertinax.	10
8	218	"Of course not," said Pertinax.	10
8	220	"What?" said Pertinax.	10
8	223	"I do not understand," said Pertinax.	10
8	225	"Where is our money, our gold?" asked Pertinax.	10
8	239	It had been quite different with Pertinax.	10
8	258	Tajima then turned to Pertinax.	10
8	261	"Go," said Pertinax.	10
8	263	"I am unarmed," said Pertinax.	10
8	274	"Yes, yes!" said Pertinax.	10
8	276	"As you wish," said Tajima to Pertinax.	10
8	292	I turned to Pertinax.	10
8	313	"Take Miss Wentworth's leash," I said to Pertinax.	10
8	332	Pertinax then loosened the leash, and stepped back from her, some seven or eight feet away.	10
8	335	"They are right," said Pertinax to her.	10
8	339	"She has pretty legs, does she not?" asked Pertinax.	10
9	9	"I will not be kept waiting!" "There is no ship," said Pertinax.	10
9	13	We completed our part of the work, and now we must be paid, and returned to Earth, with wealth, wealth!" "There is no ship," said Pertinax.	10
9	15	"Are we ourselves so innocent?" asked Pertinax.	10
9	18	"I think," said Pertinax, "we have been betrayed not so much by others as by ourselves, by greed".	10
9	20	"You would do anything for money," said Pertinax.	10
9	22	"I used to think so," said Pertinax.	10
9	25	"There is no ship," said Pertinax.	10
9	56	"Go out," said Miss Wentworth, to Pertinax, "and demand an audience with someone, anyone!" "I think we should wait," I said.	10
9	57	"That would be best, I think," said Pertinax.	10
9	66	I had gathered, from earlier conversations between Pertinax and Miss Wentworth, that she had been the employee of a large investment firm and had been primarily utilized to solicit investments from male clients, in which endeavor she had apparently been unusually successful.	10
9	72	Pertinax had been a minor clerk in the same firm.	10
9	107	And the name of White, whom she easily recruited, would be "Pertinax".	10
9	120	Pertinax, or White, if you prefer, understood little of this, and merely, as a man of Earth, redoubled his efforts to please his demanding employer.	10
9	124	The most direct route from the hut of Pertinax to the camp would have been, as nearly as I could determine, lacking maps and coordinates, either south by southeast, or, more likely, southeast.	10
9	140	"Must you humiliate her?" asked Pertinax.	10
9	171	"Pertinax!" she snapped.	10
9	172	Pertinax then hurried forward, to fill another cup, which he then, promptly, delivered to Miss Wentworth.	10
9	242	"I shall demand it!" "I am Pertinax," he said.	10
9	246	"Pertinax," she said, angrily, "is a man of Earth.	10
9	251	"Reassure him, Pertinax," she snapped.	10
9	271	Certainly Pertinax and I had no difficulty in accepting that she was a free woman.	10
9	273	Who then was she trying to convince? Pertinax naturally, from his background, I supposed, the antecedents of our situation, and so on, would think of her as a free woman.	10
9	281	"I wonder," said Pertinax, thoughtfully.	10
9	282	Pertinax's remark surprised me.	10
9	286	"You will address me as Pertinax," he said.	10
9	292	I had the thought, now, that Pertinax might leave a hut, to look after a trussed property, even were a sleen in the vicinity.	10
9	294	"I trust," said Miss Wentworth to Pertinax, "you are not toying with contemplating the possible meaning of your bestial strength, that you are not tempted to acknowledge your desires".	10
9	295	Pertinax regarded her, angrily.	10
9	302	"Why?" asked Pertinax.	10
9	334	"Do not look at me so!" she cried to Pertinax.	10
9	335	"There is no ship," said Pertinax.	10
9	336	I think Pertinax had begun to sense how a woman might be viewed, particularly one in such a tunic.	10
9	339	"Do not look at me so!" she said to Pertinax.	10
9	340	"Are you some boor, or brute? Have you not been educated?" "I was not educated," said Pertinax.	10
9	418	"I will wait outside, and accompany her," said Pertinax.	10
9	423	I then accompanied Tajima from the hut, as did Pertinax, save that he waited discreetly outside, until Miss Wentworth would be ready to attend the audience.	10
9	430	Outside, at the three aforementioned tubs, Pertinax and I found, waiting, two lovely young women.	10
9	473	"One slave to bathe you," said Tajima, one to bathe Pertinax".	10
10	142	In moments Pertinax was conducted within the pavilion.	10
10	144	One of the long, curved swords, with the large hilt, was placed in the hands of Pertinax, at which he looked, apprehensively.	10
10	151	Pertinax cast me a look of bewilderment, and misery.	10
10	156	Tajima moved toward Pertinax, and, twice, feinted toward him.	10
10	157	Pertinax lifted the blade, weakly, and then, putting down his head, in defeat, lowered it.	10
10	160	Tajima turned away from Pertinax, and faced Lord Nishida.	10
10	162	Tajima had his back to Pertinax.	10
10	164	I trusted that Pertinax would not act.	10
10	167	I trusted that Pertinax would not act.	10
10	168	In a moment it became clear to me that Pertinax would not seize his apparent opportunity.	10
10	171	His action was so quick that I, familiar with the reflexes of warriors, which often spell the difference between life and death, must admire it, and Pertinax, startled, gasped, his blade still haplessly lowered.	10
10	173	One of the guards relieved Pertinax of the weapon.	10
10	174	"Well done!" I said to Pertinax.	10
10	181	Pertinax stepped back, shaken.	10
10	197	Tajima bowed politely, and then motioned for Pertinax to follow him, and went toward the threshold of the pavilion.	10
10	198	Shortly thereafter, a small figure, completely covered, from head to foot, wholly concealed in a large sheet of white rep-cloth, was conducted forward, a guard on each side of it, Pertinax a little before it, on its left, and Tajima in the background.	10
10	334	Tajima then turned to Pertinax.	10
10	338	"Lord Nishida," said Pertinax, "this is Miss Margaret Wentworth".	10
10	425	"White, White," she exclaimed, "what is going on?" "There is no ship," said Pertinax.	10
10	427	"There is a ship!" "No," said Pertinax.	10
10	677	The guards released the slave, and she knelt, terrified, before Pertinax, and put down her head and began to lick and kiss his feet.	10
10	680	"I am Pertinax," he said.	10
10	682	"You are Pertinax.	10
10	683	Please, Pertinax, forgive me".	10
10	686	The slave looked up at me, in misery, her eyes bright with tears, and put her head down, again, to the feet of Pertinax.	10
10	688	"More," said Pertinax, sternly.	10
10	694	"I do," said Pertinax, kindly.	10
10	697	"I fear I can do nothing," said Pertinax.	10
10	699	"I gather," said Pertinax, "that you are a slave, or will soon be one".	10
10	741	"Yes," said Pertinax.	10
10	743	"No," said Pertinax.	10
10	749	"No," said Pertinax.	10
11	97	"Has Master Pertinax inquired after me?" she asked.	10
11	263	"Why has Master Pertinax not come to see me?" she asked.	10
11	271	"You think of Pertinax?" I said.	10
11	283	"I could speak to Master Pertinax," said Cecily, to the slave.	10
11	294	I was reasonably sure that Saru, whatever might be the momentums and the future of the journey on which she was embarked, would try to turn Pertinax to her will, perhaps even to the foolishness of attempting an escape.	10
11	296	To be sure, I suspected that she now thought of Pertinax rather differently than she had in the earlier phases of their relationship, being now much aware, in the manner a slave will find herself aware, and must be aware, that he was a man.	10
11	299	"I do not know if you would now recognize Pertinax," I said.	10
11	310	"Would you like for me to invite Master Pertinax to visit you?" asked Cecily.	10
11	328	"Cecily," I said, "you may inform Pertinax of the petition of a stable girl".	10
11	337	"Do you think, Master," asked Cecily, "that Master Pertinax will attend on the slave?" "I suspect so," I said, "and I trust he brings his switch".	10
11	350	"I am thinking of buying a slave for Pertinax," I said.	10
11	355	"I think, Master," she said, "Master Pertinax might prefer another slave".	10
11	374	"Give her some days to fear," I said, "that you have forgotten, or were forbidden to contact Pertinax, or that he, informed of the petition, chose to ignore it.	10
12	29	Those brought to Tarncamp were, I had gathered from Pertinax, mercenaries, bandits, brigands, thieves, murderers, wanderers, low men, cast-off men, men lost from Home Stones, and such.	10
13	31	She whom I sought, and had considered buying for Pertinax, was she whom I had noted on the chain of Torgus, on the beach, kneeling with others, neck-chained, in the surf and sand, she who had seemed most ready or needful, she whom I thought would be the first to plead for a man's touch.	10
13	208	I had, indeed, toyed with the idea of buying her for Pertinax.	10
13	211	Pertinax could certainly do worse than having his collar on one such as this.	10
13	411	I wondered again if Pertinax might like her.	10
14	110	I had gathered from Pertinax that hundreds had beached in the north, following, say, the rising in Ar, and, clearly, there were not that many in Tarncamp itself, though, as mentioned, there were several in Tarncamp, and they would, if counted, have considerably outnumbered the Pani in the area.	10
14	197	"I would seek his help," I said, "not for me but for my friend, Pertinax.	10
14	209	"Pertinax is different now from what you remember," I said.	10
14	213	"I would that you brought Pertinax to the school of Nodachi, and inquire if he might accept him," I said.	10
15	3	"Get on your knees, put your head to his feet!" She went to her knees before Pertinax, her head to the floor of the hut.	10
15	7	"Whip her," I suggested, tossing Pertinax a whip, "so that she understand she is your slave".	10
15	9	Pertinax, having become a student in the school of Nodachi, for some weeks now, no longer assisted in the logging, but, at my request, had become resident with Cecily and myself, occupying with us the hut which had originally been put at our disposal by Lord Nishida.	10
15	21	"She was important?" said Pertinax.	10
15	33	"You did buy her for Master Pertinax, did you not?" "Yes," I said.	10
15	65	"I trust," I said to Pertinax, "you do not mind that she is red silk, that she is not white silk".	10
15	95	"Mine?" said Pertinax, uncertainly.	10
15	97	"What would I do with a slave?" asked Pertinax.	10
15	107	"Consider her," I said to Pertinax.	10
15	110	"Look upon the sleek, vulnerable little she-beast," I said to Pertinax.	10
15	118	"No!" said Pertinax, suddenly.	10
15	121	"I do not know what you are talking about," said Pertinax.	10
15	136	"You did, I take it, after three days," I said to Cecily, "inform Pertinax of the petition of the slave Saru, that he might call upon her?" "Yes, Master," she said.	10
15	144	"Surely," I said to Pertinax, "on Earth, in your offices, or wherever, you must have considered the former Miss Wentworth as naked, in a collar, or on your leash, or roped at your feet, or such".	10
15	158	"Master Pertinax," said she, "the slave Saru plaintively calls herself to your attention.	10
15	161	What else has she, on this perilous world, seemingly so harsh and strange, to cling to? Who else understands her, and whence she has come, and what has been done to her? Who else is there with whom she might speak, with whom else might she hope to share her thoughts, or fears?" "She may speak with t...	10
15	163	"She is cunning, she is clever," said Pertinax.	10
15	168	"She is now only a helpless, frightened slave! She is much at the mercy of any free person! Do you not feel for her?" I am beginning to understand manhood," said Pertinax.	10
15	172	"I hate her!" cried Pertinax.	10
15	174	"Absurd," said Pertinax.	10
15	183	"Absurd," said Pertinax.	10
15	186	"Impossible," said Pertinax.	10
15	190	"She is humanly worthless," said Pertinax, "even if not economically so, whatever coin she might sell for, whatever price might take her off a slave block, whether a silver tarsk or a copper shaving.	10
15	200	Pertinax turned away, to face the wall of the hut.	10
15	202	Pertinax turned back, angrily, to survey the kneeling slave.	10
15	207	"I do not want her," said Pertinax.	10
15	211	Pertinax, of course, lacked these advantages, those of culture, background, and practice.	10
15	212	I thought, however, that giving Pertinax a slave would be not only a thoughtful gift for him, for what is a nicer gift for a fellow than to buy him a lovely slave, but that it would help him to learn the ways of Gor, and, too, in its way, help him become a man.	10
15	222	"I accept her," said Pertinax.	10
15	225	It was Pertinax.	10
15	226	"There are welts on her back," said Pertinax.	10
15	238	"Please, no, Master!" cried the slave suddenly, alarmed, and flung herself to her belly to the feet of Pertinax, sobbing, and covering them with kisses.	10
15	241	"I will try to be good! I will try to please you, wholly, in all ways, my Master!" "Surely you like a woman there," I said to Pertinax, "at your feet".	10
15	261	"Certainly," said Pertinax.	10
15	276	"We do need a name for her," said Pertinax.	10
15	278	"I do not know what to call her," said Pertinax.	10
15	295	She cast a wild look at Pertinax.	10
15	297	"Be silent," said Pertinax.	10
15	324	Jane looked to Pertinax.	10
15	326	"Certainly," said Pertinax.	10
15	345	"Once you have seen your girl in a common camisk," I said to Pertinax, "I suspect that you will not permit her to kneel with her knees together".	10
15	348	"Too, I will look into a collar," I said to Pertinax.	10
15	353	I am the property of Pertinax of Tarncamp'".	10
15	370	"Jane," she said, "Jane, the slave of Pertinax of Tarncamp, begs to be collared".	10
15	371	"It will be done," said Pertinax.	10
15	377	The slave then went to the feet of Pertinax.	10
15	388	"Pertinax," said I, "how do your lessons proceed?" He had been studying for some weeks now with the warrior in the forest, a master of the sword, who was known as Nodachi.	10
15	395	"I do not know," said Pertinax.	10
15	404	"Much makes sense to me," said Pertinax, "the nature of the ground, the position of the sun, day and night, the season of the year, but much seems mysticism".	10
15	407	"One should not die with a weapon undrawn," said Pertinax.	10
15	409	"One should pay attention to little things," said Pertinax.	10
15	414	"One who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding," said Pertinax.	10
15	422	"Are there such things in the codes?" asked Pertinax.	10
15	425	"There are many things," said Pertinax, "many, many things".	10
15	428	"The spirit of fire is fierce," smiled Pertinax, "whether it is large or small, and the spirit is like fire, and can be large or small".	10
16	177	In a moment I dispatched Tajima and Pertinax, whom I had had train with Tajima, to pursue the fugitive, whom they had not even seen.	10
16	235	"Tajima and Pertinax," I said.	10
16	236	"Pertinax?" he asked.	10
16	275	Two tarns, returning, those of Tajima and Pertinax, ahead of the swarm, streaked overhead, and then turned, to take their place in the ascending formation.	10
18	1	Fighting Continues; We Report to Lord Nishida; The Stable I brought the tarn down, to the field of training, followed by Tajima and Pertinax, and Ichiro, my first, or lead, signalman.	10
18	47	I called to my side Tajima and Pertinax, and some dozen or so mercenaries, who well knew the sword.	10
18	50	"You are learning the blade," I said to Pertinax.	10
18	56	"You, too, buckler and blade," I said to Tajima and Pertinax.	10
18	69	And then I said to Pertinax, "observe".	10
18	71	"Do not do swords with Tajima," I said to Pertinax.	10
18	72	"He despises me," said Pertinax.	10
18	74	"We are rivals," said Pertinax.	10
18	78	"My skills increase," said Pertinax.	10
18	81	I then, with some dozen or so men, mercenaries, together with Tajima and Pertinax, addressed myself to the path which led to the housing area.	10
18	97	"Should we not concern ourselves with Cecily and Jane?" asked Pertinax.	10
18	99	"With slaves," said Pertinax.	10
18	105	"They are animals?" said Pertinax.	10
18	194	Pertinax was at my side, and would presumably be familiar with that individual.	10
18	196	"No," said Pertinax.	10
18	198	"Bow," whispered Pertinax.	10
18	203	Pertinax may be more informed than I, having profited from the tutelage of Nodachi.	10
18	245	"She has nothing to fear," said Pertinax.	10
18	247	"I do not understand," said Pertinax.	10
18	249	"Her contract is held by Lord Nishida," said Pertinax.	10
18	251	"Doubtless," said Pertinax.	10
18	281	"Perhaps," said Pertinax, "because neither of us speak Gorean natively, perhaps because neither of us was born to this world.	10
18	286	"I do not think Sumomo understands that," said Pertinax.	10
18	289	"Pertinax," I said, "may one day, too, be of Gor".	10
18	290	"It is not easy to be of Gor," said Pertinax.	10
18	293	"Is it good to be of Gor?" asked Pertinax.	10
18	295	"I do not understand," said Pertinax.	10
18	297	"Yes," said Pertinax.	10
18	301	"Tajima is now approaching," said Pertinax.	10
18	338	"They will be burned alive," said Pertinax, with horror.	10
18	431	"Doubtless the honorable Pertinax, tarnsman, has more recent news," said Lord Nishida.	10
18	433	"No, Lord," said Pertinax, "I have not seen her since the pavilion, when you remanded her to the tharlarion stable".	10
18	435	Pertinax shrugged.	10
18	436	"My fellow, Pertinax, I fear," I said to Lord Nishida, "fears to look upon her".	10
18	438	Pertinax reddened.	10
18	443	"Surely, Pertinax," said Lord Nishida, "you know her neck is in a collar".	10
18	444	Pertinax nodded.	10
18	453	The fear is that she might not know herself a slave before Pertinax, that she might attempt to use the subtle wiles of Earth, guilt, and such, to work her will in a hundred ways upon him".	10
18	454	"And perhaps the honorable Pertinax fears she might prove successful in such endeavors?" "I think so," I said.	10
18	461	"Be a master," I said to Pertinax.	10
18	464	Pertinax regarded me.	10
18	475	I hoped that Pertinax, from his absurd conditioning on Earth, would not scorn her for her vitality, and needs.	10
18	488	He turned to Pertinax.	10
18	490	Pertinax looked down, reddening.	10
18	536	"They are trying to cover their flight by stampeding tharlarion!" said Pertinax.	10
18	541	"Margaret! Margaret!" cried Pertinax, wildly, and, turning about, ran toward the stable.	10
18	544	Tajima and I then, following Pertinax, hurried toward the stable.	10
19	1	At the Stable "Wait!" I called to Pertinax, who would have rushed headlong into the confines of the stable.	10
19	10	Pertinax wiped his eyes.	10
19	45	"Do not enter the stable," I warned Pertinax.	10
19	52	"Surely it is safe," said Pertinax.	10
19	58	"Why do you think this?" asked Pertinax.	10
19	89	"Master," said Pertinax, putting down his head.	10
19	118	"Master," said Pertinax, bowing.	10
19	179	"No," I said to Pertinax, who seemed on the brink of rushing through the threshold.	10
19	192	"I am going into the stable," said Pertinax.	10
19	233	"They are dead, all of them," said Pertinax.	10
19	235	Tajima joined Pertinax and myself.	10
19	271	"What do we do now?" asked Pertinax.	10
19	277	"What if any remain within and sue for quarter?" asked Pertinax.	10
19	280	"I have heard nothing from within, of Miss Wentworth," said Pertinax, and then he corrected himself, "of the slave, Saru".	10
19	296	"What will you do now?" asked Pertinax.	10
19	302	I indicated Pertinax.	10
19	304	Pertinax struggled, but was subdued, and soon trussed.	10
20	6	"Free him," I said to a nearby mercenary, indicating Pertinax.	10
20	32	"He intends to protect us," said Pertinax.	10
20	56	"No," said Pertinax, smiling.	10
20	67	"Are you ready to kill?" I asked Pertinax.	10
20	74	"Bucklers," I cautioned Tajima and Pertinax.	10
20	88	There was a sudden flash, almost invisible, and a shriek of gouged metal and a brightness of sparks and Pertinax, who was in the center, was spun half about, and almost lost the buckler, but then again had it in place.	10
20	94	Pertinax, clearly, had not anticipated the force of the missile.	10
20	103	Had Pertinax rushed forward he would have been exposed to side fire, and, if he entered far enough into the stable, might have been hit in the back.	10
20	107	"Margaret!" cried Pertinax.	10
20	109	"Tarsk!" screamed Pertinax.	10
20	117	"She is alive!" said Pertinax.	10
20	118	"You put her at great risk," I said to Pertinax.	10
20	124	"It matters to Pertinax," I said.	10
20	128	"Pertinax," I said, "does not yet have your resourcefulness, and cunning".	10
20	131	"Yes," said Pertinax.	10
20	141	I gathered that Pertinax had no sense of what it was to be a Gorean slave, the absoluteness and wholeness of it, which the former Miss Wentworth now was, and had no inkling of the transformations which had taken place in her, the unfoldings, the revelations, the self-discoveries, the new understandi...	10
20	152	"How could I do that?" asked Pertinax.	10
20	169	"Do not move," I said to Tajima and Pertinax.	10
20	176	There was then the clash of blades, briefly, fiercely, and I entered the stable, rushing within, followed closely by Tajima and Pertinax.	10
20	179	I, and Pertinax and Tajima, halted our advance, abruptly.	10
20	187	Pertinax cried out in protest.	10
20	203	Beyond this, of course, I knew that she was of some interest to Pertinax, at least as an attractive collar slut.	10
20	211	Pertinax did so, as well, angrily.	10
20	225	Pertinax cried out, in anger.	10
20	238	She cast a wild glance at Pertinax, and trembled.	10
20	239	"No," she said, "—Master!" "Slave!" cried Pertinax, in fury.	10
20	246	I then turned about, and left the stable, followed by Pertinax and Tajima.	10
21	5	Pertinax was distraught.	10
21	14	"He escapes," said Pertinax, angrily.	10
21	16	"No?" asked Pertinax.	10
22	1	Licinius Lysias Has Returned to Tarncamp; I Choose to Deal with Licinius Lysias in a Certain Manner; Saru is to be Taken from the Stable; I Return to my Hut, Followed Later by Pertinax Growling, enraged, struggling, now awakened, Licinius Lysias, he of Turmus, fought the straps which held him, hand...	10
22	42	"How did you know the tarn would return?" asked Pertinax.	10
22	54	"Licinius was kept in the saddle by the safety strap," said Pertinax.	10
22	66	"How you think of her, how you speak of her!" protested Pertinax.	10
22	69	"Never!" said Pertinax.	10
22	70	"Did you not note," asked Tajima, "how she denied being cold, and addressed Licinius Lysias as 'Master'?" "She was frightened," said Pertinax.	10
22	72	And, I thought, though I did not bring this to the attention of Pertinax, a slave who is frightened is often afraid not to speak the truth.	10
22	80	"Would you prefer," inquired Tajima, "that the slave was frigid?" "Surely such things are a matter of private concern," said Pertinax.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	125	If Lord Nishida knew of the interest of Pertinax in his slave, he had not, at least as yet, as far as I knew, brought his disapproval, doubtless subtly, to the attention of Tarl Cabot, the commander of the tarn cavalry, who then, presumably, as Pertinax's friend, and commanding officer, would advise...	10

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	269	"The men," said Pertinax, angrily, "will follow no other!" "Your friend, the noble Pertinax, is impetuous," said Lord Okimoto.	10
60	279	Pertinax then thrust at another, who slipped back, screaming, bleeding, his face half cut away, and then Pertinax swung the tool of war to the other side of the bridge, threatening another below, which fellow stumbled back in the muddy water, removing himself from the ambit of the weapon.	10