Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 29 | 156 | I View more quotes about think">think you can understand what an excellent and fitting thing this was. |
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 29 | 153 | But would we know where she would be sold? Perhaps not. |
| 29 | 154 | And auctions are such tricky things. |
| 29 | 155 | Could we be sure of overcoming all bids? Might there not be others who, for similar reasons, for similar grievances, might be as anxious as we to obtain her? And what if she misbehaved in the house of the slaver and was, say, cut to pieces, and never even came to the block? But more than these fears, I think, was the pleasure, the gratification, which would be felt in our house by our having been your actual ransomer. |
| 29 | 156 | I think you can understand what an excellent and fitting thing this was. |
| 29 | 157 | And so she came into our hands, deliciously, as a free woman. |
| 29 | 158 | And what, then, was to be done with her? We had feared, you might recall, that she might find herself enslaved, but our fear, most particularly, most exactly, was that she would find herself enslaved by the will and act of another—and not by our will and act, not by the will and act of the house of William, in Harfax. |
| 29 | 159 | But our fears proved groundless. |
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But would we know where she would be sold? Perhaps not.
And auctions are such tricky things.
Could we be sure of overcoming all bids? Might there not be others who, for similar reasons, for similar grievances, might be as anxious as we to obtain her? And what if she misbehaved in the house of the slaver and was, say, cut to pieces, and never even came to the block? But more than these fears, I think, was the pleasure, the gratification, which would be felt in our house by our having been your actual ransomer.
I think you can understand what an excellent and fitting thing this was.
And so she came into our hands, deliciously, as a free woman.
And what, then, was to be done with her? We had feared, you might recall, that she might find herself enslaved, but our fear, most particularly, most exactly, was that she would find herself enslaved by the will and act of another—and not by our will and act, not by the will and act of the house of William, in Harfax.
But our fears proved groundless.
- (Witness of Gor)