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Book 11. (400 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	54	Within the walls were several individuals, my sisters in bondage, those still the property of Clitus Vitellius, one of whom was encaged like myself, Chanda, who was sitting in her cage, wrapping a cloth about her bleeding leg; Thurnus; another of his girls, Sandal Thong; some men assisting Thurnus; ...	10
9	600	I dimly remember Thurnus's hand on the back of my neck and Sandal Thong's saying, "Do not kill her, Thurnus.	10
9	1595	"Have you conveyed this intelligence to Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford?" inquired Thurnus.	10
9	1598	"I speak for Thurnus, caste leader in the village of Tabuk's Ford," said Thurnus.	10
9	1601	"In the name of Thurnus, he of the peasants, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford," said Thurnus, "I speak.	10
9	1698	Thurnus seized the staff and, suddenly, with strength like that of a larl, jerked the young man toward him, at the same time kicking upward savagely, blasting the fellow in the teeth with the heel of his sandal, the young man reeling back, blood spattering from his nose and mouth, clutching at his f...	10
9	1701	"A good staff," said Thurnus, "must be one with which one can thrust," and, saying this, looking at one young man, he drove the staff, like a spear into the ribs of another, "and slice," added Thurnus, who then smote the first fellow, whose attention was now on his struck fellow, along the side of t...	10
9	1736	The other young man, he beside Bran Loort, then suddenly struck at Thurnus, but Thurnus, clearly, as I now understood, had been expecting the blow.	10
9	1890	It had been torn by the claw of a sleen, in the hand of Thurnus; the same claw, in the hand of Ladletender, had marked the arm of Thurnus; their bloods had mingled, though they were of the peasants and merchants.	10
9	2014	"But Thurnus," said she, "as I am now free do I not have the right to refuse?" "True," said Thurnus, puzzled.	10
27	223	Then Thurnus and Bran Loort were fighting back to back, the goblet of Thurnus left in the hands of Clitus Vitellius.	10
6	8	The still, with its tanks and pipes, lay within the village, that of Tabuk's Ford, in which Thurnus, our host, was caste leader.	10
6	31	"Give me of drink," said Thurnus to me.	10
6	34	Thurnus was a shaggy haired fellow, with yellow hair, big, broad-shouldered, large-handed, clearly in his bones and body of the peasants.	10
6	37	Thurnus tilled four of these strips.	10
6	43	Thurnus, of the Peasants, of Tabuk's Ford, was one of the best known of the sleen breeders of Gor.	10
6	44	Thurnus looked at me, and grinned.	10
6	68	I approached Thurnus with the Sul paga and knelt before him.	10
6	83	Thurnus held out his cup.	10
6	94	"Come closer, little beauty," said Thurnus.	10
6	97	I feared Thurnus.	10
6	104	My master, with his lieutenants, sat cross-legged in the large, thatched hut of Thurnus.	10
6	108	Thurnus was caste leader.	10
6	130	Thurnus looked at me.	10
6	136	On the wall of the hut, behind Thurnus, hung the great bow, of supple Ka-la-na.	10
6	147	"And do not remove your lips from the cup," said Thurnus, "until given permission".	10
6	150	"Thurnus," said his free companion, a large, heavy woman, in a rep-cloth veil, kneeling to one side.	10
6	153	There was a kennel nearby, where Thurnus kept his girls.	10
6	155	"Be quiet," said Thurnus, to her, "Woman".	10
6	156	To one side, against the wall of the hut, there rested, on a small table, a piece of plain, irregularly shaped rock, which Thurnus, years earlier, when first he had founded the farm, later to be the community, of Tabuk's Ford, had taken from his own fields.	10
6	171	It was the Home Stone of Thurnus.	10
6	172	"Thurnus," said his companion.	10
6	179	I kept my lips pressed to Thurnus's cup.	10
6	183	Thurnus was a strong man, of the sort who must either have many women, or incredibly much from one woman.	10
6	186	"You are a pretty little slave," said Thurnus to me.	10
6	188	"What is her name?" asked Thurnus of my master.	10
6	190	"Oh," said Thurnus.	10
6	193	Angrily, Melina, who was the free companion of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, rose to her feet and left the hut.	10
6	194	I shuddered under the intimate touch of Thurnus.	10
6	210	My lips remained pressed to Thurnus's cup.	10
6	215	Thurnus laughed.	10
6	220	I was furious, too, at the laughter which greeted Thurnus's proposals.	10
6	225	I began to move helplessly under the touch of Thurnus.	10
6	229	"There is something to be said, of course," said he, "for the suggestions of Thurnus".	10
6	232	I tried to restrain myself, to keep from responding to the touch of Thurnus.	10
6	238	Thurnus moved the cup a bit closer to him, maneuvering me into a yet more helpless position.	10
6	252	"If the nameless slave interests you in the least," said my master to Thurnus, indicating me with his head, "you may, of course, do what you wish with her".	10
6	254	"But," said Thurnus, laughing, "you have come to examine sleen".	10
6	257	"Let us then waste no more time sporting with slave girls," said Thurnus, "but turn our attention to more serious business".	10
6	258	Thurnus looked at me.	10
6	273	In this hut, for it was here that his Home Stone resided, Thurnus was sovereign.	10
6	276	In this house, this hut, this palace, Thurnus's was the supremacy.	10
6	280	Had Thurnus requested me my master, in such a situation, would have granted me to him immediately.	10
6	282	Yet Thurnus, though I had little doubt he found me of more than casual interest, had not asked for me.	10
6	284	Thurnus impressed me as a shrewd man.	10
6	285	My master had well respected the house of Thurnus, and his sovereignty within it.	10
6	286	Satisfied then with the acknowledgment of this power, which was rightfully his in this house, Thurnus neither put me to his purposes, nor requested of my master his permission to do so, a permission which would have assuredly been promptly and willingly tendered.	10
6	299	"I am afraid I have aroused your slave," said Thurnus, looking back at me.	10
6	304	Thurnus looked at me.	10
7	351	From the line, I glanced back to the open fires, where he sat with men of the village, Thurnus, caste leader, peasant and sleen master, among them.	10
7	354	He did not notice me, and was talking to Thurnus.	10
7	362	I looked at my master, sitting cross-legged by the fire, talking with Thurnus.	10
7	408	Earlier in the afternoon, casually, Thurnus had aroused me, and no one had satisfied me.	10
7	426	Thurnus had purchased her in Ar and brought her on a rope behind his wagon to Tabuk's Ford.	10
7	435	It was thus that Thurnus marked his girls.	10
7	584	The slave girl who wore the rope of Thurnus on her throat as a collar leaned back against the man of my master.	10
7	1425	I am giving you to Thurnus".	10
8	18	"Back," called Thurnus, coming to the sleen and putting a rope on its neck, dragging it away from the cage.	10
8	19	"Gentle! Gentle, Fierce One!" coaxed Thurnus.	10
8	23	Thurnus took a great piece of meat and threw it to the animal, which began to devour it.	10
8	29	They responded to a key, slung on the string about the neck of Thurnus.	10
8	47	Already I had been given to Thurnus.	10
8	48	Thurnus, of Tabuk's Ford, was now my master.	10
8	56	Outside the low walls, several individuals observed the proceedings, the balance of the men of Clitus Vitellius, some villagers, including some peasant boys, and Melina, veiled, the slack, fat companion of the huge Thurnus.	10
8	197	The sleen outside had been fed and taken, by the men assisting Thurnus, on short ropes, to their cages.	10
8	199	The small crowd which had observed had now dissipated, with the exception of Melina, companion of Thurnus, and two or three peasant boys, who watched me.	10
8	200	Sandal Thong, one of the girls of Thurnus, who had assisted in the training pit, had left, too, now, to attend to other duties, including the watering of the sleen.	10
8	203	Clitus Vitellius, in the tunic of the warrior, remained in the training pit, to accompany Thurnus back to his hut.	10
8	204	Thurnus tapped on the bars of the cage with a sleen whip.	10
8	222	"She is a pretty little thing, is she not?" asked Thurnus.	10
8	225	"I am grateful for the gift," said Thurnus.	10
8	228	"But a lovely trifle," said Thurnus.	10
8	230	"On your hands and knees, Girl," said Thurnus.	10
8	235	"Look up at me, Girl," said Thurnus.	10
8	259	If Thurnus were to draw the blade toward him, the tendon would be severed.	10
8	262	"That," said Thurnus, "is for having tried to escape".	10
8	271	How foolish I had been! Had I thought, truly, I might escape? Did I not know that there was no escape for the Gorean slave girl? How merciful Thurnus, my master, had been! He had not hamstrung me, or thrown me as feed to his sleen! He had only struck me, and only twice! I remembered the sleen knife.	10
8	274	"On your hands and knees, Girl," said Thurnus.	10
8	280	They then turned away from me, Thurnus and Clitus Vitellius.	10
8	283	"Let us discuss the matter," Thurnus was saying.	10
8	285	On my hands and knees, miserable, in the hot sand, the rope on my neck, I looked about the training pit, at the rack of whips and ropes, the sleen tethers, the cages, the wooden barrier about the training area, and then, on my hands and knees, made my way through the sand and out of the training are...	10
8	304	How could they expect me to work like the larger, stronger girls? Would I not be overcome with heat and exhaustion in the fields? And would I then be lashed, or worse, for malingering? I continued toward the hut of Thurnus, my master, on my hands and knees.	10
8	316	"It is said," said the one, "she has been given to Thurnus".	10
8	326	How pleased they would have been to have seen me—on Gor! In the vicinity of Thurnus's hut, at the side of one of the wagons taken in the raid on the camp of the Lady Sabina, being loaded with supplies and gear, was Clitus Vitellius.	10
9	10	Thurnus had shortened it.	10
9	14	Thurnus, wanting to see more of my legs, to her anger, had shortened it with shears.	10
9	24	I had knelt there beneath the hut of Thurnus, in the Ta-Teera, my hands tied behind my back, my neck roped to one of the pilings.	10
9	106	I, kneeling, clad in the Ta-Teera, my hands tied behind my back, my neck roped to the piling beneath Thurnus's hut, regarded them.	10
9	111	Clitus Vitellius was talking with Thurnus.	10
9	114	I am giving you to Thurnus".	10
9	144	"You will learn toil, small beauty," Thurnus had told me.	10
9	184	There were four besides myself in the cage, Thurnus's other girls.	10
9	262	"You must be a poor pleasure slave," said one, "or your master would not have given you to Thurnus".	10
9	320	Thurnus will tell everyone whether you are good or not".	10
9	377	"If Thurnus would so much as look at me," she said, "I would crawl ten pasangs on my belly to lick the dust from his ankles".	10
9	378	"Thurnus, then," I said, "is your master".	10
9	379	"Yes," she said, "Thurnus is my master".	10
9	381	"Do you have a name?" had asked Thurnus of me, earlier.	10
9	383	"He thought so little of you?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	453	I had been stung twice across the back of the thighs, below the short tunic, by Melina, companion of my master, Thurnus, when she had hurried me to the kennel.	10
9	565	In the middle of the morning we return to the hut of Thurnus, where pans of slave gruel have been put out for us, beneath the hut.	10
9	576	Ten days ago Thurnus had used me for plowing.	10
9	587	"Come, Dina, pull harder," said Thurnus.	10
9	604	Thurnus's hand left the back of my neck.	10
9	607	That night Thurnus carried me, bound, over his shoulder, back to the village, and threw me down between the pilings of his hut.	10
9	609	"This one is a weakling," said Thurnus.	10
9	616	"Go into the house, Woman," said Thurnus, angrily.	10
9	617	"You are the weakling, Thurnus," snapped Melina.	10
9	626	"You are a weakling and a fool, Thurnus," she said.	10
9	631	"You do not have much longer to give orders in Tabuk's Ford, Thurnus," she said.	10
9	633	"Untie Dina," said Thurnus, "and take her to the cage".	10
9	635	"Poor little Dina," said Thurnus, looking down at me, as the ropes were removed from my small limbs.	10
9	648	Thurnus was disappointed in my weakness.	10
9	659	He knew the sort of girl I was, delicate and sensitive, slight and beautiful, from Earth, and then he had, to his amusement, put me to harsh, weighty slavery in a peasant village, giving me to Thurnus.	10
9	670	"I would curl and purr at the feet of Thurnus," had said the large Sandal Thong.	10
9	675	Because of my slightness of strength Thurnus had had me help him often with the sleen.	10
9	678	"Are you good for nothing?" had asked Thurnus in exasperation.	10
9	683	Thurnus took me by the arms and shook me.	10
9	725	"Remain behind, Dina," had said Melina, companion of Thurnus.	10
9	727	Thurnus himself was gone.	10
9	733	Too, she had seen me in the arms of Thurnus.	10
9	735	And, I supposed, she was fully aware that Thurnus used all his girls.	10
9	741	I was certainly not Thurnus's favorite.	10
9	795	Melina was going to sell me off, I thought, while Thurnus was out of the village.	10
9	994	"My master is Thurnus," I said, "caste leader in Tabuk's Ford, of the caste of peasants, one who makes fields fruitful and is, too, a trainer of sleen".	10
9	995	I was proud of Thurnus, who owned me.	10
9	1054	To be sure, the rope collar was unpleasant, and for that reason I did not like it, but, on the other hand, I, a slave, was naturally desperately eager to please Thurnus, who was my master.	10
9	1057	There was thus a sense in which what pleased Thurnus pleased me.	10
9	1066	"Does Thurnus know you are selling her off?" he asked.	10
9	1067	"It does not matter what Thurnus knows," said Melina.	10
9	1068	"I am free and companion to Thurnus.	10
9	1100	When Thurnus had tied it on my throat he had shown it to me in one of Melina's mirrors.	10
9	1158	From one of the many drawers in the wagon, Tup Ladletender gave into the keeping of Melina, companion of Thurnus, a tiny packet, such as might contain a medicine or powder.	10
9	1175	"Perhaps, pretty Dina," said Melina, companion to Thurnus.	10
9	1302	"Thurnus will not be pleased," I said.	10
9	1336	I realized, suddenly, I had more to fear from them than from the swift switch of an angry Thurnus or Melina.	10
9	1421	* * * * "Come out, Thurnus!" called Bran Loort.	10
9	1437	"Come out, Thurnus!" called Bran Loort.	10
9	1440	"Thurnus! Come out!" cried Bran Loort.	10
9	1442	I lay in the dirt before the hut of Thurnus.	10
9	1452	All eyes turned to the doorway of Thurnus's hut.	10
9	1454	Thurnus's hut was near the center of the village, near its clearing.	10
9	1467	"Come out, Thurnus," called Melina, from the foot of the stairs below the hut.	10
9	1471	Thurnus did not appear.	10
9	1478	Thurnus stood now in the entrance to his hut.	10
9	1479	"Greetings, Thurnus," called Bran Loort.	10
9	1480	"Greetings, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1487	I saw Thurnus looking down at me.	10
9	1493	I was to be displayed to Thurnus.	10
9	1495	"I see," said Thurnus.	10
9	1497	"That is known to me," said Thurnus.	10
9	1499	"I see that, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1503	But Thurnus had not moved.	10
9	1508	Then he again turned to face Thurnus, who stood, not speaking, at the height of the stairs, some six or seven feet above the level of the ground, in the doorway to his hut.	10
9	1510	"That is what slaves are for," said Thurnus.	10
9	1512	"Did you find her pleasing?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1515	"Then," said Thurnus, "it will not be necessary for me to beat or slay her".	10
9	1517	"Surely you know, Bran Loort," said Thurnus, "it is the duty of a slave girl to be fully and completely pleasing to men.	10
9	1520	"In this," said Thurnus, "you have committed a breach of code".	10
9	1522	"Neither a plow, nor a bosk, nor a girl may one man take from another, saving with the owner's saying of it," quoted Thurnus.	10
9	1524	"What is it, Bran Loort, that separates men from sleen and larls?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1526	"It is the codes," said Thurnus.	10
9	1528	"The codes are the wall," said Thurnus.	10
9	1530	"It is the codes which separate men from sleen and larls," said Thurnus.	10
9	1534	"You have left the shelter of the wall, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1535	"Do you threaten me, Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford?" asked Bran Loort.	10
9	1536	"You stand now outside the shelter of the wall," said Thurnus.	10
9	1538	"Had you asked of me my permission, Bran Loort," said Thurnus, indicating me with a gesture of his head, "willingly and without thought, gladly, would I have given you temporary master rights over her".	10
9	1540	It was true what Thurnus had said.	10
9	1542	"But you did not ask my permission," said Thurnus.	10
9	1546	Sometimes the boys had caught us, Thurnus's girls, or those of others, too, and roped us together and raped us in the furrows of the fields, but it had been done in the bullying rowdyism of their youth, having slave girls at their mercy.	10
9	1562	"I have been patient with you, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1568	The rapes of Verr Tail and Radish, interestingly, had not counted as code breaches, though in neither case had explicit permission for their conquest been granted by Thurnus; such permission, in such cases, was implicit in the customs of the community; it did not constitute a "taking from" but a bri...	10
9	1573	"I am disposed to be merciful, Bran Loort," said Thurnus, looking at me.	10
9	1576	"I must then call the council," said Thurnus, "that we may consider what is to be done with you".	10
9	1578	"Why do you laugh, Bran Loort?" inquired Thurnus.	10
9	1581	"Are you caste leader in Tabuk's Ford?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1583	"Who has said this?" inquired Thurnus.	10
9	1590	"I am sorry," said Thurnus.	10
9	1593	"In what village is that?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1602	He, Thurnus, is first".	10
9	1604	"No," said Thurnus.	10
9	1606	"Will it be the test of five arrows?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1611	He did not care to face the bow of Thurnus.	10
9	1612	The skill of Thurnus with the great bow was legendary, even among peasants.	10
9	1613	"Then," asked Thurnus, "it will be the test of knives?" In this the two men leave the village and enter, from opposite sides, a darkened wood.	10
9	1616	Few men, I thought, would care to meet Thurnus in the darkness of the woods armed with steel.	10
9	1622	"Very well," said Thurnus.	10
9	1629	Slowly, step by step, Thurnus descended the stairs from his hut.	10
9	1631	Men, and villagers all, and slaves, cleared a space near the hut of Thurnus.	10
9	1632	"Build up the village fire," said Thurnus.	10
9	1634	Thurnus opened his tunic, then pulled it down about his waist.	10
9	1637	Thurnus came to me and lifted me to my feet, his hands on my arms.	10
9	1640	"No," said Thurnus.	10
9	1651	Thurnus stood to one side, not seeming to pay them attention.	10
9	1680	Radish was watching Thurnus, frightened.	10
9	1683	"Are you ready, Thurnus?" asked Bran Loort.	10
9	1687	"Perhaps," said Thurnus.	10
9	1689	"These fellows, I gather," said Thurnus, "will not enter our competition".	10
9	1691	"Perhaps," granted Thurnus.	10
9	1693	"Yes," said Thurnus.	10
9	1697	He smote down at Thurnus.	10
9	1704	"But," said Thurnus, "a good staff must also be strong".	10
9	1706	"Come at me," said Thurnus to another of the men.	10
9	1708	Thurnus was behind him and smote down, shattering the heavy staff across the fellow's back.	10
9	1711	"That staff, you see," said Thurnus, instructing the younger men, "was flawed.	10
9	1714	"It did not even break his back," said Thurnus.	10
9	1719	"A better weapon," said Thurnus, hefting the staff.	10
9	1723	"The first lesson you must learn," said Thurnus, swiftly jabbing the staff deeply, without warning, into his stomach, "is never to give a weapon to an enemy".	10
9	1725	Thurnus smote him sharply on the side of the head, felling him.	10
9	1727	"You should keep your guard up," said Thurnus to one of them, who immediately, warily, raised his staff.	10
9	1728	Thurnus then smote another fellow, at whom he did not appear to be looking, and, before yet another could react, felled him, as well.	10
9	1729	Thurnus then turned, looking upon these two fellows lying in the dirt.	10
9	1733	Surely Thurnus had not forgotten them! I wanted to cry out, to warn him, but I could not do so.	10
9	1739	"Aggressiveness is good," said Thurnus, "but beware of the counterstroke".	10
9	1740	Thurnus looked about himself.	10
9	1742	Thurnus grinned.	10
9	1744	"These others, I now gather," said Thurnus, "will not enter our competition".	10
9	1745	"You are skillful, Thurnus," said Bran Loort.	10
9	1747	"I am sorry that I must now do this to you, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1750	"You are young, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1754	"The caste leader must know many things," said Thurnus.	10
9	1757	Thurnus turned away, his head down, to tie his sandal.	10
9	1758	Bran Loort hesitated only an instant, and then he struck down, the staff stopped, striking across Thurnus's turned shoulder.	10
9	1761	"Too, to earn the respect of peasants," said Thurnus, straightening up, retrieving his staff, his sandal tied, "the caste leader should be strong".	10
9	1763	"Now let us fight," said Thurnus.	10
9	1768	Bran Loort was not unskilled, and he was young and strong, but no match was he for the grim and mighty Thurnus, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford, my master.	10
9	1770	At last, bloodied and beaten, Bran Loort lay helpless at the feet of Thurnus, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1773	"Beat him!" cried Bran Loort, pointing out Thurnus.	10
9	1775	The young men raised their staves, together, to charge upon Thurnus, who turned, to accept their challenge.	10
9	1782	"Throw down your staves," ordered Thurnus.	10
9	1786	"I freed her this afternoon," laughed Thurnus.	10
9	1790	"On your feet, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1792	Thurnus, swiftly, tore away the tunic about his waist, and, taking him by the arm, rudely thrust him to the heavy rack, where I lay helplessly secured.	10
9	1793	"Here is the little slave you find so lovely, Bran Loort," said Thurnus.	10
9	1796	"She is a juicy little beauty, is she not?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1798	"Is she not a pretty little cake?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1800	"Take her," said Thurnus.	10
9	1803	"Go ahead," urged Thurnus.	10
9	1809	"Follow him, who will," said Thurnus to the young men who had been his cohorts.	10
9	1811	"Of what village are you?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1813	"And who is caste leader in Tabuk's Ford?" asked Thurnus, sweating, grinning.	10
9	1814	"Thurnus," they said.	10
9	1819	Melina had withdrawn from the circle of the fire, returning to the hut she shared with Thurnus.	10
9	1820	"Let there be made a feast," decreed Thurnus.	10
9	1822	"But first, Thurnus, my love," said Melina, speaking now from the doorway of their hut, "let us drink to the victory of the night".	10
9	1824	She carried a metal goblet, and, slowly, in stately fashion, descended the steps to the ground, approaching Thurnus.	10
9	1826	"Drink, noble Thurnus, my love," said she to him.	10
9	1830	She had counted on Bran Loort and his young men defeating Thurnus.	10
9	1840	"Drink, my love," said Melina, lifting the cup to Thurnus.	10
9	1842	Thurnus took the cup.	10
9	1855	Thurnus lifted the cup to his lips.	10
9	1858	"It is our common victory," said Thurnus.	10
9	1860	"Drink first, Companion," said Thurnus.	10
9	1863	Thurnus smiled.	10
9	1865	"My love," smiled Thurnus, "drink you first".	10
9	1867	"Drink," said Thurnus.	10
9	1870	"Drink," said Thurnus.	10
9	1872	"I shall hold the cup," said Thurnus.	10
9	1877	Thurnus smiled.	10
9	1882	Thurnus threw away the emptied goblet, into the dirt.	10
9	1887	Thurnus lifted his forearm where one might see a jagged scar.	10
9	1891	"He now, has, too, saved my life," said Thurnus.	10
9	1895	Melina looked at Thurnus.	10
9	1897	"Better," said Thurnus, "that the draught had been poison, and you had drunk first".	10
9	1898	"Oh, no, Thurnus," she whispered.	10
9	1899	"Please, no!" "Bring a cage," said Thurnus.	10
9	1905	"Set the sleen upon me!" "Come here, female," said Thurnus.	10
9	1917	"Thurnus," protested Melina.	10
9	1938	Thurnus's hands were on Melina's upper arms, now bared, her robes pulled down from her shoulders.	10
9	1942	"Let me be killed, Thurnus," she begged.	10
9	1943	Thurnus lifted the sleen collar before her.	10
9	1945	"Kill me instead, Thurnus," she begged.	10
9	1947	"Put your hands to your side, woman," said Thurnus.	10
9	1949	Thurnus then looped the sturdy, leather, metal-embossed sleen collar about her throat.	10
9	1954	She looked up in fear at Thurnus.	10
9	1955	"Into the cage, Slave," said Thurnus.	10
9	1956	"Thurnus!" she cried.	10
9	1961	At a gesture from Thurnus, Sandal Thong, surrendering the sleen leashes to a man, who took the animals from the clearing, came to the cage and, with two hands, flung down the metal gate to the cage, locking her former mistress within.	10
9	1963	"Let there be a feast!" called Thurnus, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1968	At a gesture from Thurnus Radish, Turnip and Verr Tail ungagged me and freed me from the heavy stock.	10
9	1979	Therein she was fastened, the beams locking her ankles and neck, and wrists, in place, and, as her left thigh was held by strong men, branded by the hand of Thurnus, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1983	At Thurnus's right hand sat Tup Ladletender.	10
9	1984	On Thurnus's left sat the free woman, Sandal Thong, whom he had earlier this afternoon freed.	10
9	1998	Thurnus, at the feast, stood up.	10
9	2007	The villagers, and Thurnus, and Ladletender, drank.	10
9	2008	"And, too, this night," said Ladletender, "I drink to one with whom I do not share caste but that which is stronger than caste, the blood of brotherhood, Thurnus, he of Tabuk's Ford".	10
9	2011	Thurnus stood up again.	10
9	2015	"Then, noble Thurnus," said she, evenly, calmly, "I do refuse.	10
9	2017	Thurnus lowered the cup of paga.	10
9	2019	Sandal Thong gently lowered herself to the ground, and lay on her belly before Thurnus.	10
9	2033	"I have been in your arms, Thurnus," she said.	10
9	2039	"The love I bear you, Thurnus," she said, "is not the love of a free companion, but a hopeless slave girl's love, a love so deep and rich that she who bears it can be only her man's slave".	10
9	2040	"Serve me paga," said Thurnus.	10
9	2060	Thurnus set aside the cup.	10
9	2061	"Have rope brought, and collar me, Thurnus," she said.	10
9	2063	"Bring rope," said Thurnus.	10
9	2065	Thurnus took the rope, and regarded the girl.	10
9	2070	Thurnus wrapped the rope twice about her throat, and knotted it.	10
9	2156	Thurnus was nearby, and Sandal Thong, and Radish, Verr Tail and Turnip.	10
9	2157	"I name you Melina," said Thurnus to the confined slave.	10
9	2164	"Yes," said Thurnus.	10
9	2172	"Have you been bereft of your wits by the brand," inquired Thurnus.	10
9	2176	"I did not move to become district leader," said Thurnus, "for it was your urging and intent that I do so.	10
9	2183	"If I choose to seek the leadership of the district," said Thurnus, "I will do so.	10
9	2186	"You knew little of the matters of being a companion," said Thurnus.	10
9	2194	"Yes," said Thurnus.	10
9	2197	Thurnus smiled.	10
9	2205	I had little doubt but what Thurnus might do this if he caught one of his girls in a lie.	10
9	2206	"How can that be?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	2211	"Tomorrow," said Thurnus, "you will have less time to think, and more time to work".	10
9	2215	"In the morning you will be whipped," said Thurnus.	10
9	2228	"You were always a shrewd, clever woman," said Thurnus.	10
9	2241	"Perhaps," said Thurnus.	10
9	2246	"It is long since you have asked my touch," said Thurnus, regarding her.	10
9	2251	"Can it be," asked Thurnus, "that the slave, in her sleen collar, is aroused?" "She desires to please her Master".	10
9	2252	"Is she aroused?" inquired Thurnus.	10
9	2254	"She is aroused! She is aroused! For the first time in years she is aroused!" Thurnus looked down upon her.	10
9	2256	Thurnus turned away.	10
9	2272	We turned away as Thurnus, swiftly and brutally, raped the slave girl in the stock.	10
9	2276	"Be silent, Slave," said Thurnus.	10
9	2279	I suspected that never had Thurnus used her with such authority and force.	10
9	2284	She looked after Thurnus, startled, confused, awe-struck, bewildered, enraptured.	10
9	2287	Thurnus drew his tunic about him.	10
9	2292	"He was promised you, in payment for the powder he gave to one in the village," said Thurnus.	10
9	2301	"But so, too, are you, pretty little Dina," said Thurnus.	10
9	2343	Sandal Thong turned then to Thurnus.	10
9	2345	"Excellent," said Thurnus.	10
9	2350	Thurnus grinned.	10
9	2357	"Excellent," said Thurnus.	10
9	2359	I had little doubt that Thurnus, for his considerably improved slaves, would soon be the envy of the village.	10
9	2363	Once a man understands that a woman can be a pleasure slave how will he ever thereafter want her as anything different or see her as anything less? Sandal Thong then herself knelt before Thurnus, she, too, as a pleasure slave.	10
9	2365	Thurnus gestured to the other slaves.	10
9	2369	In her love for Thurnus, clearly, she was determined that he would have the best not only from herself, but from all his girls.	10
9	2370	Too, I had little doubt but that when it was the turn of the village slave, Melina, to serve the house of Thurnus that she, too, would fall under the same strict discipline.	10
9	2374	The rope collar of Thurnus was removed from my neck.	10
9	2393	Thurnus came over to me and put his hand on my head, and shook it.	10
9	2404	"I wish you well, Master," I said to Thurnus.	10
9	2410	"I wish you well, little slave," said Thurnus.	10
9	2447	After a time I said, "May I have a candy, Master?" I had not forgotten the candy he had given me beneath the hut of Thurnus.	10
11	180	And I remembered Clitus Vitellius, and Thurnus, and the captain, strict with me in his office.	10
11	387	"Before that?" "Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Peasants," I said.	10
11	454	I remembered the words of Thurnus.	10
14	84	I recalled he had been defeated by Thurnus and then, stripped, thrust before a rape-rack in the village on which a girl, naked and helpless, awaited him.	10
14	85	"I give you my permission," had said Thurnus.	10
14	87	"Go ahead," had urged Thurnus.	10
25	216	Since that time I had been the slave of Clitus Vitellius, of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Keep of Stones of Turmus, and of the Belled Collar.	10
27	124	Thurnus, whatever might have been his virtues, was not skilled in melody.	10
27	125	"It is Thurnus!" I laughed.	10
27	129	He leaped to his feet and he and Thurnus, who was carrying his great staff, met, embracing, among the tables.	10
27	131	Thurnus was already drunk, I thought.	10
27	133	Thurnus, clearly, was in Ar on some business.	10
27	145	Rather than permit himself to be seen in tavern work by Thurnus, Caste Leader of Tabuk's Ford, I thought he might choose death.	10
27	151	"Sul paga!" cried Thurnus, pounding on the small table with his great staff.	10
27	154	"Sul paga!" shouted Thurnus, pounding on the table.	10
27	156	"Sul paga! Sul paga!" cried Thurnus.	10
27	159	"Master," said he, "we have many pagas, those of Ar and Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba, and Helmutsport, and Anango, and Tharna!" "Sul paga!" shouted Thurnus.	10
27	162	It did not require a great deal of experience to sense that Thurnus must soon be quiet or there would be trouble.	10
27	164	"Sul paga!" demanded Thurnus.	10
27	170	"Sul paga!" shouted Thurnus.	10
27	173	Thurnus rose to his feet, his face a maze of conflicting emotions, disbelief and incredulity chief among them.	10
27	176	"No Sul paga?" said Thurnus.	10
27	178	"Then I shall sing," said Thurnus.	10
27	180	Thurnus, as good as his word, broke into wondrous song.	10
27	181	At this point, unable to help himself, one of the fellows at another table leaped bodily upon Thurnus and began to pummel him.	10
27	185	I saw some two men fly off their feet, held up toward the ceiling by Thurnus.	10
27	188	Then I saw Thurnus go down under a pile of attackers.	10
27	192	"I am done for," cried Thurnus, from somewhere under the pile.	10
27	202	"I am here!" Thurnus, by this time, had extricated himself from beneath the pile of bodies and stood to one side, a goblet of paga in his hand.	10
27	203	"He fights well," said Thurnus to Clitus Vitellius.	10
27	207	He saw Thurnus.	10
27	208	"There are only twenty!" called Thurnus.	10
27	220	Thurnus broke a table over the head of one.	10
27	224	Bran Loort held the staff and, behind him, using half of the broken table, Thurnus protected him, fending blows and thrusting out, now and again, with the shattered table.	10
27	226	Then Thurnus and Bran Loort, the wall at their back, stood side by side.	10
27	237	He had placed Thurnus's paga on a nearby table.	10
27	238	He stood between Thurnus and Bran Loort, and the men threatening them.	10
27	246	Then they surrounded Thurnus and Bran Loort, pounding them on the back.	10
27	247	"I shall not sing," promised Thurnus.	10
27	250	"And what are you doing here, miserable Bran Loort?" demanded Thurnus.	10
27	254	"Rightfully so," roared Thurnus.	10
27	257	"Is it not time to harvest the Sa-Tarna?" "I thought you might have forgotten," said Thurnus.	10
27	259	Thurnus regarded the young man.	10
27	263	"An amazing coincidence," marveled Thurnus.	10
27	266	"More paga!" called Thurnus.	10
27	274	"Good," said Thurnus.	10
27	276	"Drink a cup of paga," said Thurnus.	10
27	282	"He has much to learn," said Thurnus, "but someday he will be a caste leader.	10
27	285	Thurnus grasped his hand.	10
27	410	He then leapt from the alcove to find Thurnus.	10