Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 18 | 172 | Unfortunately for her this View more quotes about information">information, as I suspect is often the case in such matters, proved unreliable. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 18 | 169 | Apparently she had failed to do so. |
| 18 | 170 | As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races. |
| 18 | 171 | She had thought herself, in virtue of the possession of significant and secret information, assured of certain winners in these races. |
| 18 | 172 | Unfortunately for her this information, as I suspect is often the case in such matters, proved unreliable. |
| 18 | 173 | Her wagers had, at any rate, proved uniformly disastrous. |
| 18 | 174 | She had become a ruined woman. |
| 18 | 175 | She had had to flee from Venna under the cover of darkness, that she not be delivered to the mercies of her creditors. |
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Apparently she had failed to do so.
As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races.
She had thought herself, in virtue of the possession of significant and secret information, assured of certain winners in these races.
Unfortunately for her this information, as I suspect is often the case in such matters, proved unreliable.
Her wagers had, at any rate, proved uniformly disastrous.
She had become a ruined woman.
She had had to flee from Venna under the cover of darkness, that she not be delivered to the mercies of her creditors.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor)