Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 541 | "There were two reasons," I said. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 538 | "But I View more quotes about assure">assure you, Lady Publia," I said, "the pertinent determinations in such matters, when the women are stripped and stood against a wall, are not made on the basis of gold". |
| 15 | 539 | "I suppose not," she said, bitterly. |
| 15 | 540 | "Why, too," I asked, "did you, a wealthy woman, of the Merchants, choose to wear artful rags, as though you might be a simple low-caste maid?" She was silent. |
| 15 | 541 | "There were two reasons," I said. |
| 15 | 542 | "The first is that you feared that the high castes and the richer castes, such as the Merchants, might be less likely to be spared by the enemy, that they might be the subject of more resentment, perhaps because of envy, or perhaps that they would be particularly sought out for vengeance, on the supposition that they, presumably the more powerful castes in the city, might be most responsible for the prolongation of the siege. |
| 15 | 543 | You, on the other hand, by your disguise, so to speak, might hope to escape such a fate. |
| 15 | 544 | Cosians would see you, you hoped, not in terms of politics, but merely in terms of loot. |
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"But I assure you, Lady Publia," I said, "the pertinent determinations in such matters, when the women are stripped and stood against a wall, are not made on the basis of gold".
"I suppose not," she said, bitterly.
"Why, too," I asked, "did you, a wealthy woman, of the Merchants, choose to wear artful rags, as though you might be a simple low-caste maid?" She was silent.
"There were two reasons," I said.
"The first is that you feared that the high castes and the richer castes, such as the Merchants, might be less likely to be spared by the enemy, that they might be the subject of more resentment, perhaps because of envy, or perhaps that they would be particularly sought out for vengeance, on the supposition that they, presumably the more powerful castes in the city, might be most responsible for the prolongation of the siege.
You, on the other hand, by your disguise, so to speak, might hope to escape such a fate.
Cosians would see you, you hoped, not in terms of politics, but merely in terms of loot.
- (Renegades of Gor)