| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 137 |
"Why?" "If you are an honest fellow," said the captain, "why would you wish to go to Victoria?" "Surely there are honest doings in Victoria," I said. |
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| 22 | 237 |
"Few in Victoria," I said, "are of Victoria, it seems. |
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| 25 | 163 |
"Even so," said Callimachus, "do you think that he, a warrior of Ar, a captain, will simply disguise himself and hurry off to a rendezvous in Victoria? He is surely aware that many in Victoria bear those of Ar little love. |
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| 29 | 226 |
Tasdron had arranged them in Victoria, on the pretense of fetching a consignment of Sa-Tarna from Siba, to be brought to the Brewery of Lucian, near Fina, east of Victoria, with which brewery he occasionally did business. |
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| 6 | 1 |
I Hear of the Markets of Victoria; I will Travel There Women are almost always auctioned naked. |
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| 6 | 130 |
The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. |
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| 6 | 133 |
"I would go to Victoria," I said. |
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| 6 | 142 |
"Avoid Victoria," he said. |
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| 6 | 146 |
"Then avoid Victoria," he said. |
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| 6 | 159 |
"That Victoria is one of the major outlets for the merchandise of river pirates". |
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| 6 | 162 |
"I will not put in at Victoria". |
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| 6 | 163 |
"Let me row for you to the vicinity of Victoria," I said. |
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| 6 | 166 |
"It will be useful to have another oarsman," he said, "even as far as Victoria, and we will have the current with us". |
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| 6 | 168 |
"Perhaps, too," he said, "we could pick up a new oarsman west of Victoria". |
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| 7 | 1 |
I Arrive in Victoria; I Hear of the Sales Barn of Lysander "What am I offered for this girl?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 7 | 3 |
She was being sold from a rough platform on the wharves of Victoria. |
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| 7 | 23 |
"Victoria has refused the tribute," one of them was saying. |
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| 7 | 30 |
"Or return it to Victoria, once she is properly chastened," said the first. |
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| 7 | 32 |
"Indeed," said the first, "they cannot permit Victoria this insolence. |
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| 7 | 34 |
"They will feel Victoria must be punished," said the second. |
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| 7 | 37 |
"Yet, it is interesting," said the first, "for I would not think they would truly need the topaz to subdue Victoria". |
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| 7 | 41 |
"If it is being brought east," said the first, "I think it betokens more than the disciplining of Victoria". |
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| 7 | 46 |
I had gone a pasang inland to avoid river tharlarion and proceeded, paralleling the river, toward Victoria. |
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| 7 | 116 |
"Surely women can be purchased more cheaply in Victoria than a silver tarsk," I smiled. |
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| 7 | 122 |
"This is Victoria," said he. |
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| 7 | 138 |
"Do you know if he is now in Victoria?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 140 |
"He has come to Victoria to sell goods and slaves". |
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| 7 | 180 |
I then took my way up a narrow street leading into Victoria. |
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| 8 | 2 |
I had tallied my resources, prior to coming to the tavern of Tasdron, off the avenue of Lycurgus, and found them to amount to only seventy copper tarsks, including five tarsks which I had happily, and unexpectedly, received, the captain being a good fellow, for acting as an oarsman from Fina to the ... |
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| 8 | 10 |
In Victoria I was confident I would encounter no guardsmen who, at the behest of honest folk, might encourage me to take my leave at an early convenience. |
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| 8 | 57 |
"He is new in Victoria," said Tasdron, desperately. |
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| 8 | 160 |
"I think perhaps you should leave Victoria". |
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| 9 | 44 |
Such sales occur frequently in the various sales barns of Victoria, sometimes running for several nights in a row. |
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| 9 | 50 |
If she had been sold she might even now, while I stood about, helplessly, be being transported from Victoria, a slave, anywhere. |
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| 10 | 112 |
Should I not have marched her through the streets of Victoria naked, an exhibited slave, for my own joy, that of her master, and that men might rejoice in her beauty and call out to me their congratulations, commending me on the splendid fortune that was mine, that of having such a woman in my total... |
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| 13 | 3 |
I frequented various taverns in Victoria. |
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| 13 | 41 |
"There are some guardsmen from Ar's Station in Victoria," I said. |
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| 14 | 1 |
Lola I went back outside and brought in the other materials which I had purchased here and there in Victoria. |
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| 14 | 153 |
It is regarded, in some cities, including Victoria, as a way of making clear to her that the house in which she now finds herself is a house in which she is a slave. |
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| 18 | 6 |
He has been in Victoria for weeks". |
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| 18 | 18 |
"This is Victoria," I said. |
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| 18 | 30 |
He has been in Victoria for weeks". |
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| 18 | 55 |
"The guardsmen from Ar's Station, also in Victoria searching for the topaz, are offering only six silver tarsks". |
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| 18 | 78 |
I then left the small headquarters of the guardsmen of Port Cos, in Victoria. |
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| 19 | 28 |
"There are no guardsmen in Victoria," I said. |
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| 19 | 31 |
Most of those of Victoria are honest fellows. |
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| 19 | 35 |
"Of Victoria?" asked the merchant. |
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| 19 | 79 |
That had doubtless been done elsewhere than in Victoria. |
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| 19 | 94 |
Do not be in Victoria by morning". |
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| 19 | 105 |
I did not think honest folk in Victoria would again find him troublesome. |
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| 19 | 107 |
"I am in Victoria on business. |
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| 20 | 12 |
Anxious, I had begun to search the public places of Victoria. |
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| 21 | 47 |
"It is well known in Victoria, how she betrayed you," said Peggy. |
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| 21 | 49 |
"And am I, only a dock worker, known in Victoria?" I looked at her. |
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| 21 | 51 |
I supposed there was little in Victoria that was not known to its nude or half-clad tavern slaves. |
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| 21 | 53 |
"Doubtless I am a laughing stock in Victoria," I said, bitterly. |
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| 21 | 57 |
"You are known and respected in Victoria," she said. |
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| 21 | 65 |
"Yes," she smiled, "it is well known in Victoria what occurred in the tavern of Hibron, but none blame you. |
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| 21 | 82 |
"And the thief, Grat, the Swift, who has long been a nuisance in Victoria, has fled the town, obedient to your command". |
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| 21 | 85 |
"There are even those who say there should be guardsmen in Victoria, and that you should be chief among them," she said. |
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| 21 | 102 |
"How long is Glyco to remain in Victoria?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 114 |
"I wonder what such a man is doing in Victoria, speaking with Callimachus," I said. |
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| 21 | 173 |
"But it is thought to be in Victoria". |
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| 21 | 174 |
"The men of Victoria," I said, "seem adamant in refusing to pay the tribute to Policrates". |
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| 21 | 180 |
To be sure, in the past years the pirates had become more and more dependent on the markets of Victoria to dispose of their loot and captures. |
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| 21 | 181 |
In the light of this many in Victoria regarded themselves as having at last attained a position in which they might succeed in evading the humiliating burdens of tribute. |
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| 22 | 11 |
"Where are the guardsmen of Ar's Station?" There were several guardsmen, from each of these towns, in Victoria. |
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| 22 | 16 |
"Victoria is not their concern," said another, bitterly. |
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| 22 | 26 |
Let us stop them!" "They are the masters in Victoria," said a man. |
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| 22 | 47 |
I saw Kliomenes, some seventy yards away, directing his men and the enforced laborers, citizens of Victoria, loading the galleys. |
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| 22 | 69 |
"Here, at my feet, supine, stripped, is a free woman of Victoria. |
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| 22 | 85 |
"We do what we wish with Victoria," said the pirate. |
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| 22 | 93 |
But what, I asked myself, if she were, in her secret heart, as Alison, in Ar, and Peggy, in Victoria, both themselves surely slaves, had claimed, a true slave? If she were she had made a great fool of me, in pretending to be free, in being often displeasing, in daring to sell Lola, in attempting to ... |
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| 22 | 99 |
Yes, I vowed, if she were a slave, I would have her in my collar! And she would soon then well know herself a slave! I would treat her, the desirable little slut, and slave, with a ruthlessness and a power that would become legendary in Victoria! I then could no longer deny it. |
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| 22 | 179 |
"Policrates owns Victoria," said another. |
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| 22 | 185 |
I had seen a free woman of Victoria stripped with no more mercy than would have been shown to a slave. |
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| 22 | 187 |
I had seen the disorganization, the fear, the demoralization of the men of Victoria. |
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| 22 | 189 |
And the men of Victoria, though greatly outnumbering the pirates, had not fought. |
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| 22 | 228 |
"In the view of hundreds of those of Victoria these men, so few of them, burned and looted, laughing and with impunity, as it pleased them. |
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| 22 | 229 |
And in the view of hundreds of those of Victoria, angry, but inactive and cowering, not daring to protest, were lofty free women of this town publicly stripped and bound, thence to be carried into shameful slavery, to wear their collars at the feet of buccaneers". |
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| 22 | 236 |
"I am not of Victoria," he said. |
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| 22 | 239 |
If not men such as we, who, then, is of Victoria?" "I am sick," he said. |
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| 22 | 272 |
He came west upon the river, to Victoria". |
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| 22 | 307 |
"It is said," I said, "that the pirates own Victoria". |
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| 23 | 52 |
Too, I was detained in Victoria. |
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| 23 | 53 |
There are many guardsmen in Victoria, both of Port Cos and Ar's Station, who search for the bearer of the topaz". |
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| 23 | 71 |
Indeed, I was reasonably well known in Victoria. |
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| 23 | 90 |
"A brawler and dock worker of Victoria," he said, "one called Jason". |
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| 23 | 93 |
"Jason, of Victoria," said Kliomenes, "did not know the sword". |
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| 23 | 129 |
"Obviously this man cannot be Jason of Victoria," smiled Policrates. |
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| 23 | 149 |
In long hours, from dawn to dusk, and even in the light of lamps, over the past several days, in my house in Victoria, he had labored with me, instilling in me techniques, and anticipations and reflexes, subjecting me, too, to a tutelage of apprehensions and tactics. |
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| 23 | 213 |
It was the free woman, or the woman who had been free, who had been ordered from the crowd on the wharves of Victoria. |
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| 23 | 296 |
"Kliomenes fell in with her at the tavern of Hibron, the Pirate's Chain, in Victoria," he said. |
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| 23 | 301 |
"She herself," said Policrates, "repudiated the assistance of a fellow desiring to extricate her from her peril, mocking and dismissing him, one called Jason, of Victoria, he to whom you bear some physical resemblance". |
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| 23 | 369 |
She was the woman who had been free, whom I had seen enslaved on the wharves of Victoria, only a few nights past. |
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| 25 | 1 |
In the Tavern of Tasdron Men Meet in Secret "Withdraw, Slave," said Tasdron, proprietor of the tavern of Tasdron, in Victoria, off the avenue of Lycurgus. |
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| 25 | 24 |
Accordingly she could be to him little more than any other slave, only another girl, self-effacing, deferential, scarcely noticed, who served him in the establishment of her master, Tasdron of Victoria. |
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| 25 | 41 |
Callimachus had kept the repudiation of his dereliction a secret from those in Victoria. |
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| 25 | 44 |
Victoria knew him still as only a fallen man, one defeated, one lax in his caste codes, one inert and whining in traps of his own weaving. |
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| 25 | 50 |
"He will fetch Callisthenes, who is captain of the forces of Port Cos in Victoria, he in search of the topaz. |
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| 25 | 58 |
"Have you made inquiries among those of Victoria?" asked Callimachus of Tasdron. |
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| 25 | 60 |
"We can expect no aid, then, from Victoria?" said Callimachus. |
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| 25 | 68 |
"We must arrange that Aemilianus, Captain of the forces of Ar's Station in Victoria, also attend this meeting tonight," said Callimachus. |
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| 25 | 72 |
"Those of Port Cos and Ar's Station would sooner cut one another's throats than share wine in Victoria," said Tasdron. |
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| 25 | 76 |
"Yet guardsmen of these two places have been for weeks in Victoria and have made no effort to seek one another out". |
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| 25 | 86 |
"What could admit it more openly than their common presence in Victoria, without strife?" asked Callimachus. |
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| 25 | 151 |
Why else do you think he sought you in Victoria?" "I pledge you that I will work well with Callisthenes," said Callimachus. |
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| 25 | 153 |
"Victoria is closer to Port Cos than Ar's Station," said Tasdron. |
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| 25 | 169 |
"For what purpose has he come to Victoria?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 143 |
"What is he doing in Victoria?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 166 |
"You should not leave Victoria," I said, "until several ships, in convoy, are prepared to move westward". |
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| 26 | 232 |
I had learned from Peggy that I was not unknown in Victoria. |
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| 26 | 234 |
Too, perhaps they had learned of my dismissal of Grat, the Swift, the thief, from Victoria, and how I had entered the tavern of Hibron to extract Miss Henderson from her danger there, though in this I had been unsuccessful. |
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| 26 | 235 |
Perhaps they knew, too, of my outspoken displeasure at the wharves when the pirates had looted and burned there, punishing Victoria for having at that time refused their demands for tribute. |
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| 26 | 253 |
And beyond these things, I did not wish for those of Victoria to know of my skills with the blade. |
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| 26 | 254 |
Jason, the worker on the docks, and a fellow of some popularity in Victoria, was not thought to be skilled with the blade. |
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| 26 | 261 |
I felt a fondness then for the men of Victoria. |
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| 27 | 150 |
That action convinced me that whoever he was, he was not of Victoria. |
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| 27 | 151 |
In Victoria it was thought I did not know the blade. |
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| 27 | 152 |
Thus, had he been of Victoria I think that he, even in pain, might have advanced. |
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| 27 | 164 |
"You may not steal here, Fellow! This is Victoria, you know!" "What is going on there?" called a voice, from along the wharves, behind me. |
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| 28 | 92 |
I had been released after the testimonies afforded by Tasdron, who had made it clear to him that I, well known in Victoria, and having arrived from the east on the river, could not be the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 28 | 234 |
"I commonly work on the docks in Victoria". |
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| 28 | 303 |
"Jason and I," said Tasdron, "are of Victoria. |
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| 28 | 304 |
Victoria is neutral ground between Ar's Station and Port Cos. |
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| 28 | 306 |
It interested me that Tasdron had, without even thinking about it, spoken of me as of Victoria. |
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| 28 | 308 |
I supposed that I was, though, in a sense, of Victoria. |
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| 28 | 311 |
I wondered if I were of Victoria. |
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| 29 | 34 |
I had not heard of it in Victoria, nor had Callimachus or Tasdron. |
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| 29 | 45 |
"Victoria, hitherto at least, has been primarily Cosian in her sympathies". |
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| 29 | 69 |
"That is why I came to Victoria, to seek out Callimachus, that he might, in these dark times, with the topaz in transit, lend us his council, and his blade". |
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| 29 | 152 |
"We know," said Tasdron, "that the topaz was brought to Victoria. |
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| 29 | 176 |
I have some two hundred men in Victoria and Aemilianus, as my intelligence sources indicate, a comparable number". |
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| 30 | 11 |
Again Policrates signaled and this time Lita, who had once been a free woman of Victoria, pausing only to discard the bit of silk she wore on the marble steps, hurried to kneel beside me. |
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| 30 | 13 |
She had been humiliatingly and publicly stripped and knelt on the boards of the wharf at Victoria, before large numbers of her fellow citizens, inactive and frightened. |
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| 30 | 28 |
"You are Jason, of Victoria, are you not?" inquired Policrates. |
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| 30 | 40 |
"You are involved in the conspiracy of Tasdron, taverner of Victoria, who is in league with Glyco, of Port Cos," said Policrates. |
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| 30 | 43 |
"And we will wreak a vengeance on Victoria of which men will dare not speak for a hundred years". |
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| 30 | 90 |
"Was it you, Jason, he of Victoria," inquired Policrates, "whom we previously entertained in our holding as the courier of Ragnar Voskjard?" "Of course," I said, angrily. |
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| 30 | 163 |
Jason of Victoria, on the other hand, does not know the sword". |
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| 30 | 170 |
Whoever had betrayed us must be, or be in contact with, the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, he who had tried to obtain the topaz from me on the wharves of Victoria. |
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| 30 | 204 |
"He is Jason, from Victoria. |
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| 32 | 64 |
"My Master, Miles of Vonda, took ship from Victoria, in the Flower of Siba". |
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| 32 | 131 |
"I should have slain you long ago, in the tavern of Tasdron, in Victoria," said Kliomenes. |
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| 32 | 154 |
"Do not slay him, Kliomenes," said one of the men near the curule chair, "for he might be of use in bargaining for the freedom of the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard, who must have been captured by our enemies in Victoria". |
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| 32 | 357 |
I assumed they would think I would have emerged north and east of the channel, for that way lies closer to Victoria. |
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| 32 | 361 |
I could always cross the channel northeastward, at my convenience, under the cover of darkness, to move toward Victoria, or I might, if I chose, move simply to the southern shore of the Vosk. |
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| 32 | 362 |
I was certain I could find means from there to make my way back to Victoria. |
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| 33 | 17 |
I had made my way to Victoria, and hence westward, learning of the movement of ships toward the chain. |
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| 33 | 18 |
Yesterday evening I had boarded the Tina, out of Victoria, captained by Callimachus. |
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| 33 | 28 |
To port and starboard, each some fifty yards away, gray and silent, intermittently visible in the fog, each lying to, as was the Tina, were two other galleys, the Mira, out of Victoria, and the Talender, out of Fina. |
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| 33 | 34 |
Indeed, he is the leader in Victoria of those who would oppose the power of the men of Policrates". |
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| 33 | 46 |
Too, the fleet of Policrates is now east of Victoria, to prevent such ships from reinforcing us. |
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| 33 | 180 |
"Two from Victoria, two from Jort's Ferry, two from Point Alfred, and one from Fina". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 116 |
Two of the men at the table had been signatories to the treaty of the Vosk League, solemnly signed under festive canopies on the wharves of Victoria yesterday at the tenth Ahn, Glyco, who had signed on behalf of Port Cos, and Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria, who had signed on behalf of Victoria. |
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| 16 | 13 |
Almost at that very moment, from the seemingly deserted buildings of Victoria, running and screaming, charging, brandishing an incredible assortment of chains, tools and weapons, there issued hundreds of the outraged citizens of Victoria. |
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| 18 | 565 |
I had sent men ahead of her, requesting that she be spurned and ignored, that as a favor to Jason of Victoria, dozens of men, my friends and fellow citizens of Victoria, good-naturedly cooperated in this ruse. |
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| 21 | 474 |
Many are the girls in Victoria who will envy me such a master! My heart swells with pride to be the slave of Jason of Victoria. |
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| 1 | 82 |
Was it because the flag of Victoria flew on our stem-castle lines? I saw the hand of Callimachus fall, almost like a knife. |
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| 4 | 73 |
To our port side, gunnels almost touching, lay the Mira, our sister ship, from Victoria. |
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| 6 | 61 |
Of Port Cos, we had had the Leda and Tais; of Ar's Station, we had had the Olivia and Portia, and four prize ships; of Fina, we had had the Talender; of Victoria, we had had the Mira and Tina. |
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| 6 | 65 |
"The Tais should make a run for it," said a man near me, a native of Victoria, a survivor of the Mira. |
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| 7 | 29 |
"I am from the Mira, from Victoria!" he said. |
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| 8 | 204 |
"Jason," I said, "of Victoria, your master". |
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| 8 | 610 |
"Jason," said I, "Jason, of Victoria!" Then I climbed to the shattered window and, holding the girl, crouched there for a moment. |
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| 9 | 2 |
"Speak, or we shall fire!" "Jason," said I from the dark, cold water, "Jason of Victoria. |
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| 9 | 114 |
In the confusion and darkness, and in the movement of ships, we had set the Olivia afire, her sails set and her rudders tied in place; she was moving eastward, which would be the likely escape route toward towns such as Port Cos, Tafa and Victoria. |
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| 9 | 268 |
"I am Jason," I told her, "Jason, of Victoria". |
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| 10 | 19 |
I had made it in Victoria before venturing west, there to join the Tina at the chain. |
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| 10 | 20 |
It was identical to that which had been worn by the masked fellow who had tried to obtain the topaz from me in Victoria. |
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| 10 | 222 |
We would not raise over the holding of Policrates the flags of Port Cos, or of Victoria, or of Ar's Station. |
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| 11 | 72 |
Accordingly, though the brunette would know that, to her woe, she, now in her own collar, was confined with a girl to whom she had once been almost as Mistress, she would not begin to know or suspect that one named Jason, of Victoria, a free man, resided now within the same holding as she. |
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| 12 | 48 |
I had met him on the wharves of Victoria, late at night. |
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| 13 | 1 |
Callimachus and I are Passengers Aboard the Flagship of Policrates; Policrates will Venture to Victoria My arms were taken far behind me. |
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| 13 | 15 |
Callimachus and I must be surrendered to him, Callisthenes, Reginald and Kliomenes must be freed, else Victoria would be subjected to fire and the sword. |
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| 13 | 16 |
Defenseless Victoria, we had vowed, must not perish. |
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| 13 | 25 |
"Victoria," he said. |
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| 14 | 4 |
We must now be in the vicinity of Victoria. |
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| 14 | 8 |
Scout ships, however, had been left at the channel's mouth, that he might now, rather, be directed to Victoria. |
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| 14 | 68 |
"There is more than enough for all of us in Victoria," said Policrates. |
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| 15 | 1 |
Victoria "It is quiet," said Kliomenes. |
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| 15 | 2 |
He stood upon a wharf in Victoria, to the left of the blade upon which I was bound. |
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| 15 | 6 |
I heard jokes about the women of Victoria, and how they would please the pirates this night. |
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| 15 | 8 |
Other ships, too, were nosing into the numerous wharves lining the water front of Victoria, and were being tied to mooring posts, and to one another. |
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| 15 | 31 |
Tonight, in chains, perhaps we will permit you to serve wine to our newly collared slave girls, the women of Victoria. |
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| 15 | 40 |
"There has never been resistance in Victoria," said Kliomenes. |
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| 15 | 44 |
"And never before," said Callisthenes, "have the cowards of Victoria had this much reason to be so fearful. |
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| 15 | 87 |
Victoria, I then suspected, had been abandoned, left to the wrath of the vengeful reavers of the river. |
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| 16 | 9 |
"Then, Lads," cried Policrates, "take Victoria! She is yours!" Then, at that very instant from atop the frame building housing the office of the wharf master the alarm bar began to ring. |
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| 16 | 33 |
"On for Victoria!" "Fight! Stand! Fight!" screamed Policrates. |
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| 16 | 77 |
There was cheering from the men of Victoria. |
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| 16 | 92 |
I did not think that they would find the citizens of Victoria indulgent captors. |
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| 16 | 94 |
"Well done, Lads!" I called to the men of Victoria. |
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| 16 | 196 |
On the wharves and along the water front I could see hundreds of the citizens of Victoria. |
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| 16 | 229 |
The banners and pennons of Victoria were there, and of Fina and Hammerfest, of Sulport, Sais, Siba and Jasmine, of Jort's Ferry and Point Alfred, of Iskander, of Tancred's Landing and Forest Port. |
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| 16 | 285 |
There is commonly little danger of eels near Victoria, save near the shadows and shallows of the wharves themselves. |
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| 16 | 374 |
"Do not permit me to fall into the hands of those of Victoria!" he begged. |
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| 16 | 377 |
"Keep me from the men of Victoria," he begged. |
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| 16 | 385 |
"Jason," I told him, "Jason—of Victoria". |
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| 16 | 398 |
The waters off the Victoria wharves seemed crowded, but many of the ships were aflame. |
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| 16 | 399 |
The alarm bar was ringing in Victoria, but now in token of victory. |
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| 16 | 484 |
"You will be able to hear, from the wharves at Victoria, the ringing of a hammer, pounding on iron, on an anvil. |
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| 16 | 554 |
The bow turned toward Victoria. |
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| 16 | 561 |
I could hear, too, from the wharves of Victoria, the ringing of the hammer, closing links of chain and curving collars of iron about the throats of helpless pirates. |
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| 16 | 563 |
Victoria lay ahead. |
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| 17 | 3 |
It has its name from the fact that most renters of, and dealers in, Coin Girls in Victoria, keep their kennels on this street. |
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| 17 | 69 |
I regarded her, in the yellowish, flickering light of the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp, late at night, on the rude stones of that dark, narrow street in Victoria. |
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| 17 | 113 |
And then she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, of New York City, of Earth, and was now Linda, knelt before me, on the rude stones of that narrow street in Victoria. |
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| 18 | 148 |
* * * * I sat upon a great curule chair, on a broad, three-stepped, carpeted dais in the house which I had borrowed from a friend, a citizen of Victoria, for the past few days. |
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| 18 | 182 |
Lola, too, of course, had been her keeper as a Coin Girl when I had, as Jason of Victoria, by apparent accident, encountered her on the Street of the Writhing Slave. |
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| 18 | 630 |
"Later," she said, "courting slavery, for which I yearned in my heart, I went to the tavern of Hibron in Victoria, called the Pirate's Chain. |
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| 18 | 647 |
It was there that I met he whom I had loved and despised, Jason of Victoria. |
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| 18 | 679 |
"I submitted to Jason of Victoria. |
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| 18 | 704 |
'How fortunate is this fellow, Jason of Victoria,' I thought to myself, smiling inwardly, 'to have conquered himself such a prize. |
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| 18 | 714 |
Given sufficient time, and the obligation to speak, through natural associations and continuities she had confessed her love for Jason of Victoria to me. |
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| 19 | 68 |
In my house I saw fit to honor the customs of Victoria. |
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| 19 | 111 |
My mysterious master must, thus, be of Victoria, or of some other city in which are practiced the customs of the capture carry and the initiatory whipping!" The point of these customs, of course, is clear. |
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| 19 | 114 |
To be sure, whether in Victoria or not, or in a city with comparable customs, new girls, in one way or another, are usually reminded, promptly and effectively, that their slavery is uncompromising and actual, and that they are fully at the disposition of their masters. |
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| 19 | 1083 |
The slave chains of Victoria, and some of the other river cities, were now heavy with luscious girl fruit. |
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| 19 | 1213 |
"It says," said Lola, "'I am the property of Jason of Victoria. |
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| 20 | 23 |
Seven men, including myself, were present, Glyco, high merchant of Port Cos; Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria; Aemilianus, leader of the naval forces of Ar upon the Vosk; Calliodorus, captain of the Tais; and my friends, Callimachus and Miles of Vonda, who had brought with him his slave, Florence. |
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| 20 | 34 |
For the last few days I had been boarding Shirley at a kennel in Victoria, but I had had her brought home this evening that she might help with the serving, and for another reason. |
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| 20 | 117 |
In all, nineteen towns had become members of the League, Turmus, Ven, Tetrapoli, Port Cos, Tafa, Victoria, Fina, Ragnar's Hamlet, Hammerfest, Sulport, Sais, Siba, Jasmine, Point Alfred, Jort's Ferry, Forest Port, Iskander, Tancred's Landing and White Water. |
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| 20 | 134 |
"To Victoria!" said Glyco, reciprocating the honor that Tasdron had shown his city. |
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| 20 | 135 |
"To Victoria!" we said, and well and heartily drunk, too, was this toast. |
10 |
| 20 | 139 |
"No," he smiled, "it is because Victoria is your city". |
10 |
| 20 | 200 |
"Will you board your slave in Victoria," I asked, "while you venture to Turmus?" Florence looked frightened, suddenly. |
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| 20 | 211 |
He had detected that I, embarrassed by the tears which had formed in my eyes following our toast to Victoria, had sought to divert attention from this putative weakness by making that the moment in which I would give a gift to my friend, Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 253 |
But, of course, Miles of Vonda and Tasdron, of Victoria, their masters, had given them food from their plates. |
10 |
| 20 | 341 |
The citadel of Ragnar Voskjard had been fled by its defenders, after the news of the battle at Victoria reached them, they knowing themselves too few to defend it against a concerted siege. |
10 |
| 20 | 353 |
"The headquarters of the Vosk League, as I understand it," I said, "is to be located in Victoria". |
10 |
| 20 | 356 |
"Victoria was centrally involved in the resistance to the pirates," said Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 20 | 875 |
The former Peggy Baxter, of Earth, nude and in the steel collar of Tasdron of Victoria, her master, now danced before us, a Gorean slave girl. |
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| 20 | 1185 |
"What you do not know," said Tasdron, "is that long ago, over a century ago, this stone, unbroken, was the Home Stone of Victoria". |
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| 20 | 1189 |
Since that time Victoria has not had a Home Stone. |
10 |
| 20 | 1191 |
In a few days we of the council of Victoria will go down to the river. |
10 |
| 20 | 1193 |
That, then, shall be the new Home Stone of Victoria". |
10 |
| 20 | 1217 |
"It is our hope, too, that you will be there," said Tasdron, "with the others of Victoria". |
10 |
| 20 | 1249 |
"Thus," said he, "should any of Victoria be abroad at this hour they may observe the value and the quality of the animal, this lovely gift, which I have been given". |
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| 20 | 1478 |
Perhaps you have a headache?" "No, Master! No, Master! Feel me, feel me!" "Feel you?" "Yes, Master! I am ready to leap to your touch! Did you not see my response to the whip caress, when it was unexpectedly delivered, when I was sold in Victoria? I have slave reflexes, Master! I cannot help myself! ... |
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| 21 | 471 |
"As Beverly," she said, "—the slave of Jason of Victoria". |
10 |
| 21 | 473 |
"Perhaps Master does not know, but it is a great honor to be the slave of Jason of Victoria. |
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| 21 | 479 |
It is she who lies in the arms of Jason of Victoria. |
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| 21 | 581 |
And who would want another sort in his collar? "Many in Victoria," I said, "are richer than I". |
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| 21 | 744 |
"By Beverly," she said, "the slave of Jason, of Victoria". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 33 |
These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and other... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 83 |
Some well-known towns in the Vosk League are Victoria, Tafa and Fina. |
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| 2 | 89 |
The headquarters of the Vosk League is located in the city of Victoria. |
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| 2 | 90 |
I suppose there are special historical reasons for this, for Victoria is not centrally located on the river, say, between the delta to the west and the entry of the Olni into the Vosk on the east, which point, incidentally, is controlled by the city of Lara, a member of the Salerian Confederation. |
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| 2 | 91 |
Victoria lies rather toward the west, in the reaches traditionally more subject to Cosian influence. |
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| 20 | 186 |
Its headquarters was in the town of Victoria, on the northern bank of the Vosk, between Fina and Tafa. |
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| 20 | 205 |
After the final victory over the pirates, which took place at Victoria in 10,127 C. |
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| 20 | 306 |
"These ships would not be under the command of one called Jason, of Victoria?" smiled Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 322 |
"This ship here," he said, "is the Tina, out of Victoria. |
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| 20 | 325 |
Victoria, of course, was the headquarters of the Vosk League. |
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| 20 | 350 |
"Victoria?" I asked. |
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| 20 | 376 |
"Victoria?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 85 |
"Doubtless he will also be certain to be publicly visible in Victoria," smiled Aemilianus. |
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| 24 | 806 |
She is noted, like Victoria, and certain other towns, for excellent wares in that respect". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1307 |
She is from the valley of the Vosk, and you know what they are like, particularly the ones from Victoria, only a stone's throw from Jasmine's native village. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 142 |
To be sure, it is one thing to desert in Victoria, in Market of Semris, in Besnit, in Temos, in Ar, and quite another at the World's End. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 27 |
Chloe had changed hands several times in her eastward journey on the Vosk, town to town, but, in the end, she had been sold in the great clearing station of Victoria, from which point she had been sold southeast to Torcadino, and then, eventually, in Ar, where some agent of the Kurii had apparently ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 125 |
Barbarian slaves are commonly given barbarian names, for example, Amanda, Amber, April, Beryl, Ethel, Tracy, Heather, Rose, Vivian, Victoria, Jocelyn, Stephanie, and such. |
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| 53 | 3 |
We will cross the Laurius by ferry, inconspicuously with others, at one point or other, and continue south, eventually to reach the Vosk, following which we will seek Victoria". |
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| 53 | 7 |
"Is Victoria not a market town," I said, "a major market for slaves, wholesale and retail? Are not many slaves disposed of there? Do not buyers come there, even from far beyond the Vosk basin?" "It is the major slave market on the Vosk," he said. |
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| 53 | 154 |
"I will sell you in Victoria," he said. |
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| 54 | 5 |
"I have decided not to sell you in Victoria," he said. |
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| 54 | 14 |
"Victoria," he said. |
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| 54 | 15 |
"If I am not to be sold," I said, "why are we going to Victoria?" "It is the town of my Home Stone," he said. |
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| 54 | 23 |
"Victoria is one of the greatest of the river ports," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 163 |
"Kurik of Victoria," he said, "is the key to the venture, and you are the key to Kurik of Victoria". |
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| 28 | 186 |
How could things proceed more smoothly? And consider the absurdity of the name, 'Tenrik', obviously reminiscent of his real name, 'Kurik'! Could he not do better than that? And he alleges to be of Siba, he, of Victoria! Siba is another of the towns on the Vosk, like Victoria. |
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| 49 | 490 |
"Why would one such as she, a high woman of the Merchants, of a jewelry house in Victoria, be here, enleagued with Decius Albus?" "She is not of Victoria, nor of the house of Portia," said Kurik. |
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| 68 | 273 |
"Let Kurik of Victoria hear that!" "I wish you well," said Kurik of Victoria. |
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| 8 | 122 |
I had been told it read 'I am the slave of Kurik of Victoria'. |
10 |
| 8 | 124 |
I would later learn that Victoria was a large river port. |
10 |
| 8 | 126 |
It was difficult to trace slaves through Victoria, most of whom were sold without papers. |
10 |
| 8 | 128 |
Victoria was a trading port in which few questions were either asked or answered. |
10 |
| 9 | 182 |
Last night he who had been my master, Kurik, of Victoria, had much used me. |
10 |
| 9 | 240 |
"I am recently in Victoria," said the man in black. |
10 |
| 9 | 276 |
I was furious that Kurik, he of Victoria, to whom I had belonged, who had so peremptorily, so routinely, so ruthlessly deprived me of my virginity, not that a slave's virginity is of more worth than that of a pig, and who had, despite my will, dared to caress me into eager, helpless, begging servitu... |
10 |
| 9 | 344 |
"I have a Home Stone," she said, "that of Victoria, jewel of the mighty Vosk!" "Yes, Mistress," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 242 |
"One of the dark caste, here in Victoria?" asked another man. |
10 |
| 10 | 282 |
"You are not of Victoria, noble Raymond of Ti," said the dealer, who was standing to the side. |
10 |
| 10 | 284 |
"I gather you are not to be long in Victoria," said the dealer. |
10 |
| 10 | 286 |
"But Victoria is a rich trading place for slaves". |
10 |
| 10 | 304 |
"I gather you will soon be leaving Victoria," said the dealer. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
They were, however, rare in the vicinity of Victoria. |
10 |
| 11 | 272 |
"Do you know a man named Kurik, Kurik of Victoria?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 13 | 31 |
But this bondage was lighter than many in which I had found myself, since my sale in Victoria. |
10 |
| 13 | 55 |
I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill. |
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| 13 | 94 |
In the past few months, since my sale in Victoria, I think the major change that had taken place in me, which muchly transformed me, was the kindling of my slave fires. |
10 |
| 13 | 104 |
I had changed much, of course, in many other ways, as well, over the months since Victoria. |
10 |
| 15 | 115 |
I did know something about them, and their varieties, from one or another of the dealer's men in Victoria. |
10 |
| 23 | 44 |
"Your first master," he said, "was Kurik, of Victoria, of the caste of Slavers". |
10 |
| 23 | 67 |
"How you must hate Kurik of Victoria," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 89 |
"I gather then," he said, "if you are candid with me, which I trust you are, you do not hate, abominate, and loathe Kurik of Victoria". |
10 |
| 23 | 93 |
"Do you think you could recognize Kurik, of Victoria, should you see him again?" "Assuredly, Master," I said. |
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| 23 | 94 |
"I suspected," he said, "that you hated Kurik of Victoria, and thus that I could most easily have my will with you did I pretend enmity to that noble, prized fellow, that most fortunate fellow, whom I gladly seek". |
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| 23 | 104 |
"You do not bear Kurik of Victoria ill will?" he asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 108 |
"You would do your best to contribute to the welfare and good fortune of Kurik of Victoria?" he asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 113 |
"He seeks Kurik of Victoria, to tender him position, riches, and power". |
10 |
| 23 | 114 |
"Kurik of Victoria is then most fortunate," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 115 |
"On behalf of my principal, it is incumbent upon me to contact Kurik of Victoria". |
10 |
| 23 | 128 |
"My charge," he said, "is to make contact with Kurik of Victoria, to see that he receives what he deserves". |
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| 23 | 145 |
"May I inquire the name of your principal," I said, "the source of the projected emoluments, and the deserts you plan to bestow on my former master, the noble Kurik of Victoria?" "Ela," he said, "such matters are confidential". |
10 |
| 23 | 149 |
"You will not be," he said, "for you wish the best for our dear Kurik of Victoria". |
10 |
| 23 | 160 |
"It had to do with Kurik of Victoria?" I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 164 |
"My master," I said, "he whom I knew as Tullius Quintus, of Ar, I fear, wished to sell me to some bidder, that I might be used to locate Kurik of Victoria". |
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| 23 | 167 |
"He trolled," he said, "casting his lines about, a word here, a word there, in the taverns, in the markets, words that would be meaningless to most, stray sounds, but telling to he who might have an ear for the name 'Phyllis', for the name 'Kurik of Victoria'". |
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| 23 | 187 |
"I can recognize Kurik of Victoria, surely, but I have no idea as to his whereabouts. |
10 |
| 23 | 188 |
I gather he is not in Victoria. |
10 |
| 23 | 191 |
My sources inform me that it is to Kurik of Victoria, in Brundisium, that the package is to be delivered, Brundisium, a great port, familiar with exotic cargos, unusual birds, mighty serpents, surprising beasts, a port where such cargos are not likely to elicit undue attention. |
10 |
| 23 | 203 |
"And you will discover, and obtain, this gift through the offices of Kurik of Victoria?" "Yes," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 207 |
"Kurik of Victoria is fortunate". |
10 |
| 23 | 208 |
"And thus your cooperation," he said, "given your hope to do well by Kurik of Victoria, is well assured". |
10 |
| 23 | 226 |
I had seen this man before, this large-handed, lean, hard man, on the wharf at Victoria, from my cage, he passing by, feral, wary and taciturn, men withdrawing from his path. |
10 |
| 23 | 231 |
When I had seen him before, that morning in Victoria, he had been clad differently, more somberly, in a sable tunic, a cape, high, black, bootlike sandals. |
10 |
| 26 | 77 |
I had no idea what might be the contents of this shipment, or its importance, or what it might have to do with me, or with my first master, Kurik, of Victoria. |
10 |
| 26 | 244 |
"Kurik, of Victoria?" I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 265 |
"How are you to deal with Kurik of Victoria?" I asked. |
10 |
| 26 | 271 |
"I bear Kurik of Victoria no ill will," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 27 |
I was determined not to reveal the identity of Kurik of Victoria to my master. |
10 |
| 27 | 36 |
What I did not understand was why my master had said I would be unable to help myself, why he thought that I could not help but identify Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 27 | 38 |
I hoped, but did not hope, that Kurik of Victoria was not even in Brundisium. |
10 |
| 27 | 42 |
I recalled I had, in Victoria, cried out my love for him, a slave's love for her master. |
10 |
| 27 | 82 |
"I think it likely," he said, "that by now Kurik of Victoria is in Brundisium. |
10 |
| 27 | 89 |
And if Kurik of Victoria wishes to conceal his presence, as he may well wish to do, where better than in the district of the lower wharves". |
10 |
| 27 | 167 |
"I think," he said, "that the shipment may be about, and Kurik of Victoria, as well, here amongst the southern piers. |
10 |
| 28 | 66 |
Perhaps, at last, here, we shall detect our elusive Kurik of Victoria, and be led by him, unwittingly, to our prize". |
10 |
| 28 | 70 |
Did Tyrtaios fear I might call out to Kurik of Victoria, to warn him of his danger? Surely not. |
10 |
| 28 | 99 |
"So," said Tyrtaios, pleasantly, "that is Kurik of Victoria". |
10 |
| 28 | 114 |
To my misery I saw Kurik of Victoria approaching us. |
10 |
| 28 | 122 |
I could not have helped but react to the sight of Kurik of Victoria, my first master. |
10 |
| 28 | 124 |
My clever plans, that I might refrain from disclosing the proximity of Kurik of Victoria, did I see him, had been unfounded. |
10 |
| 28 | 127 |
I fear my expression was one of fear, protest, and agony, as I tried to warn Kurik of Victoria of his danger. |
10 |
| 28 | 132 |
But he could see the expression of Kurik of Victoria, which conveyed naught but interest, and perhaps concern. |
10 |
| 28 | 133 |
"You pause, sad Master," said Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 28 | 135 |
"You are on the street of Crates, near the food shop of Bion," said Kurik, of Victoria. |
10 |
| 28 | 187 |
Why could he not, at least, have pretended to be from somewhere else, away from the Vosk, Corcyrus, Helmutsport, Besnit, Bazi, Tor, anywhere apart from Victoria? What a fool, a fool!" I fell, weeping, and, by the collar and stick, it turned on my neck, was yanked to my feet. |
10 |
| 28 | 208 |
You have identified Kurik of Victoria for me. |
10 |
| 28 | 249 |
"Trust," he said, "that my mission is successful, for if Kurik of Victoria should survive, and learn you betrayed him, as you did, and very nicely, it would not be well to fall into his hands". |
10 |
| 28 | 254 |
I had betrayed Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 29 | 59 |
I could not but recognize the voice of my first master, Kurik, of Victoria. |
10 |
| 30 | 85 |
"As I recall, from Victoria," he said, "you had the incipiency of collar readiness. |
10 |
| 30 | 191 |
"Good," said Kurik, of Victoria. |
10 |
| 30 | 196 |
"He mocks you, that you chose the name 'Tenrik of Siba' as a concealing name," I said, "for it is foolishly and clearly close to that of 'Kurik', and he finds it pathetically inept that you should have claimed to be from Siba, for that is merely another town on the Vosk, as is your true town, Victor... |
10 |
| 30 | 203 |
"Victoria is the ruby of the Vosk," she said. |
10 |
| 30 | 288 |
Despite the rudeness, and the commanding brutality, of Kurik, of Victoria, in the manner in which it had occurred, I had been fed and watered. |
10 |
| 30 | 334 |
Four times the music stopped, and I waited for the return of Kurik, of Victoria, but it would begin again, perhaps with another slave, certainly with another tempo, another mood, another exhibition of how marvelously beautiful and desirable a human female can be, another exhibition of why they shoul... |
10 |
| 30 | 335 |
I rehearsed a hundred greetings, criticisms, comments, witty remarks, and clever observations, for when I should be rejoined by Kurik, of Victoria, that he might realize how little his absence concerned me, that his neglect of me was scarcely noticed, if at all, and perhaps had even been welcomed, s... |
10 |
| 30 | 345 |
Many times then, that evening, the next morning, and the next afternoon, did Kurik of Victoria pleasure himself with me. |
10 |
| 30 | 363 |
Kurik of Victoria knew well the handling of helpless slaves, their caressing and owning, their grasping and stroking, their conquest and fulfillment. |
10 |
| 30 | 371 |
More than once I had seized the slave whip, kissed it, and licked it, and, kneeling, proffered it to Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 30 | 386 |
I fear that I many times cried out my love for Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 30 | 400 |
Who then could he fear, but himself? I recalled how, long ago, in Victoria, when I was new to my collar, I had cried out my love for him, and had been soon, I thought abruptly, inexplicably, sold. |
10 |
| 31 | 2 |
"She will do," said Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 31 | 14 |
"This is a cheap market," said Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 31 | 55 |
In the alcove, earlier, when I had learned that the house of Anesidemus was a slave market, I had, distraught, in misery, cast myself to my belly before Kurik of Victoria, who was sitting, cross-legged, his back to the leather curtain. |
10 |
| 31 | 82 |
I was begging Kurik of Victoria to own me. |
10 |
| 31 | 104 |
"He would think," said Kurik of Victoria, "sixty or seventy copper tarsks would be too much". |
10 |
| 31 | 106 |
"I do not doubt it," said Kurik of Victoria, my master. |
10 |
| 31 | 138 |
"Shortly," said Kurik, of Victoria. |
10 |
| 31 | 171 |
Well did I remember that I, long ago, on a wharf in Victoria, had been subjected to the Slaver's Caress. |
10 |
| 31 | 193 |
"Yes," said Kurik, of Victoria. |
10 |
| 32 | 44 |
I had been in the arms of Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 32 | 124 |
But, surely, I thought, if my master can assume some guise, why not I? But why, I asked myself, that of a paga girl? Did my master so think of me? Did he think of me as no more than a paga girl, if that? Who could look at me, and think I was a mere paga girl? But then I realized that any master, eve... |
10 |
| 34 | 228 |
"Tyrtaios, Master," I said, "he of the Assassins!" Kurik of Victoria rose up and removed the switch from the wall. |
10 |
| 34 | 286 |
For a moment, Kurik of Victoria seemed unsteady. |
10 |
| 34 | 297 |
Now, desist, and, in some days, when you have recovered your strength, return to Victoria". |
10 |
| 35 | 21 |
"Who whips you?" I had never been whipped, though my master, Kurik of Victoria, never hesitated to use the switch on me when I had been stupid, slow to respond, or in any other way the least bit displeasing. |
10 |
| 35 | 172 |
I recalled the free woman from the wharf in Victoria. |
10 |
| 36 | 1 |
"That is interesting," said Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 37 | 92 |
Certainly I knew I would strive to excite the interest of Kurik of Victoria. |
10 |
| 39 | 60 |
I feared that Kurik of Victoria, seemingly so calm, seemingly so oblivious of the danger, was now deranged, or mad. |
10 |
| 39 | 69 |
Kurik of Victoria, a step behind me, flung shut the door and drew me back into the room. |
10 |
| 40 | 6 |
I well remembered the free woman, slender, possibly lovely, veiled and robed, on the wharf in Victoria, who had, in her rage, at some conjectured insult, screaming, lashed the bars of my cage, for better than an Ehn, while I shrank back within it. |
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| 40 | 49 |
Kurik of Victoria, of course, had made certain inquiries. |
10 |
| 40 | 168 |
At least Kurik of Victoria had not braceleted my hands behind my back, before sending me on his errand. |
10 |
| 41 | 117 |
"Victoria!" "Forgive me, Mistress!" I said. |
10 |
| 41 | 207 |
I was startled to see the free woman, she clad in shimmering white and yellow, she with the parasol, she whose acquaintance I had briefly and unpleasantly made long ago on a wharf in Victoria. |
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| 45 | 218 |
"You led us promptly to the concealment of Kurik of Victoria". |
10 |
| 46 | 165 |
"It is the gift of Lord Arcesilaus," I said, "delivered to Brundisium, to be claimed by my master, Kurik, of Victoria, and brought to Ar, to be given to you. |
10 |
| 46 | 266 |
Kurik of Victoria, for a time, continued to survey our back trail. |
10 |
| 48 | 35 |
I gathered that my master, Kurik, of Victoria, would muchly conduct this small colloquy. |
10 |
| 48 | 41 |
I suddenly realized that Paula assumed either that Kurik of Victoria, whom she had presumably never seen, was Lord Grendel, or an agent of Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 49 | 1 |
"And that, dear Grendel, my friend," said Kurik of Victoria, "is what transpired in the House of a Hundred Corridors". |
10 |
| 49 | 2 |
The strokes on the great bar, signaling the tenth Ahn, were still ringing when Kurik of Victoria and I, I heeling him, were ushered into an audience chamber in the House of a Hundred Corridors. |
10 |
| 49 | 4 |
"Welcome!" called a large, coarse-featured man in white and gold, rising from his curule chair on its dais, and hurrying down to embrace Kurik of Victoria, warmly. |
10 |
| 49 | 9 |
But surely he knew that Kurik of Victoria was not Lord Grendel. |
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| 49 | 55 |
"Behold Lord Grendel," said Decius Albus to the gathered assembly, indicating Kurik of Victoria, "ambassador and plenipotentiary of the great Ubar, Lord Arcesilaus, of rich Mytilene, amongst the Farther Islands, well beyond Cos and Tyros, come to establish ties of friendship and commerce between tha... |
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| 49 | 80 |
My master, Kurik of Victoria, thinks of it as an independent caste, judiciously or not. |
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| 49 | 149 |
"Am I to address you as Tenrik of Siba, or Kurik, of Victoria?" "'Tenrik' will do," said my master. |
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| 49 | 198 |
I knew her well, from a wharf in Victoria, from a street in Ar. |
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| 49 | 202 |
"May I present my lovely colleague, the noble Lady Alexina, of the House of Portia, in Victoria?" "I am delighted, but puzzled," said Kurik, bowing. |
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| 49 | 230 |
About the table were six curule chairs, five of which would be occupied, those by Decius Albus; Drusus Andronicus; Tyrtaios; Kurik of Victoria, my master; and the Lady Alexina. |
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| 49 | 491 |
"She knows little, or nothing, of Victoria, or the house of Portia. |
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| 49 | 497 |
Too, the house of Portia would find it difficult to ship from the wharf of Terence in Victoria, as there is no such wharf". |
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| 49 | 511 |
"And that, dear Grendel, my friend," said Kurik of Victoria, "is what transpired in the House of a Hundred Corridors". |
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| 50 | 182 |
He, Kurik of Victoria, released the arm of his captive, thrust back his hood, and drew away the false beard with which he had concealed his countenance. |
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| 51 | 156 |
I am Kurik, of Victoria, ally to Lord Arcesilaus, friend to your protector, Lord Grendel. |
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| 51 | 313 |
I fell to my knees before him, Kurik, of Victoria, my master. |
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| 52 | 5 |
"Phyllis," I said, "Phyllis, the slave of Kurik of Victoria!" He came about, and stood before me. |
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| 52 | 235 |
Kurik of Victoria regarded me. |
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| 53 | 110 |
Apparently Drusus Andronicus had been selected either by Surtak or Decius Albus, most likely Decius Albus, for the choice might be immaterial to Surtak, and Lord Grendel, of course, selected his colleague and ally, my master, Kurik, of Victoria. |
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| 59 | 33 |
The eyes of Kurik of Victoria seemed glazed. |
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| 60 | 35 |
I saw, on the field, rather toward the house, not far from where we had entered the field, chained to a stake, by hands, body, and legs, my master, Kurik of Victoria. |
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| 60 | 230 |
A soldier approached, with keys to the padlocks that secured the chains of Kurik of Victoria. |
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| 60 | 256 |
I knew then Kurik of Victoria would fight, no matter the odds. |
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| 60 | 283 |
The two seeming beasts, one bound with chains, the other with its ax, approached the center of the small field, opposite the stands, near the stake to which Kurik of Victoria had been fastened. |
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| 61 | 2 |
So, too, I gathered, was Kurik of Victoria. |
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| 61 | 456 |
I recalled when, on my former world, in the office, he whom I would come to know as Kurik of Victoria, had inquired why I was standing before him. |
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| 61 | 645 |
In the bit of time in which the Kur had advanced upon the free woman, had encountered the poisoned spines of the gay, bright-yellow parasol, and experienced the consequences of its indiscretion, the Kurlike thing near the stake had flung open the large, flat box, and Lord Grendel had seized out his ... |
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| 61 | 661 |
"This quarrel, noble Albus," cried Kurik of Victoria, "is for you! For its residence it would choose your heart! Order your men to throw down their weapons!" "Men, men!" cried Decius Albus, in terror. |
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| 61 | 692 |
This salute was returned by Drusus Andronicus and Kurik, of Victoria. |
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| 62 | 32 |
"That is my understanding," said Kurik, of Victoria. |
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| 62 | 122 |
"Yes," said Kurik, of Victoria. |
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| 63 | 350 |
Two other important marketing centers in the northern hemisphere were the port, Brundisium, and, on the Vosk, Victoria. |
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| 63 | 352 |
The locations of Brundisium and Victoria had not a little to do, it was speculated, with their economic importance. |
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| 63 | 354 |
And Victoria, as I understood it, was the largest port on the Vosk, this providing a favored access to one of Gor's major arteries of commerce. |
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| 64 | 4 |
Certainly I had not spent much time in the collar house to which I had been remanded by Kurik of Victoria, shortly after my arrival on Gor. |
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| 64 | 262 |
"You may now serve the men," said the Lady Bina, indicating Drusus Andronicus and Kurik, of Victoria. |
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| 64 | 264 |
She then brought the cubes to Drusus Andronicus and Kurik, of Victoria. |
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| 65 | 50 |
The two at the gate, Drusus Andronicus and Kurik, of Victoria, were joined by Lord Grendel. |
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| 65 | 331 |
Kurik, of Victoria, lowered his bow. |
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| 66 | 2 |
We spoke softly, that we not disturb the masters, Drusus Andronicus and Kurik, of Victoria, who rode together on the wagon bench, Drusus Andronicus handling the reins. |
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| 67 | 20 |
Kurik, of Victoria, my master, had now joined us. |
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| 67 | 75 |
"When one cares for a person," said Kurik, of Victoria, "one cares for the whole person. |
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