Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 424 | "Why not?" The selling of infant daughters is not that unusual in View more quotes about large">large cities. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 421 | "Would you rather have been exposed in the Voltai," he asked, "a wooden skewer through your heels?" She shook her head, frightened. |
| 24 | 422 | "But why would I have been sold?" she asked. |
| 24 | 423 | "You were a female," he said. |
| 24 | 424 | "Why not?" The selling of infant daughters is not that unusual in large cities. |
| 24 | 425 | Some women do it regularly. |
| 24 | 426 | They make a practice of it, much as they might sell their hair to hair merchants or to the weavers of catapult ropes. |
| 24 | 427 | Some women, it is rumored, hope for daughters, that they may sell them to the slave trade. |
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"Would you rather have been exposed in the Voltai," he asked, "a wooden skewer through your heels?" She shook her head, frightened.
"But why would I have been sold?" she asked.
"You were a female," he said.
"Why not?" The selling of infant daughters is not that unusual in large cities.
Some women do it regularly.
They make a practice of it, much as they might sell their hair to hair merchants or to the weavers of catapult ropes.
Some women, it is rumored, hope for daughters, that they may sell them to the slave trade.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)