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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)

Perhaps this woman had fallen on hard times and had had to sell a slave, and must now send her robes and veils to a commercial laundry. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 12, Sentence #29)
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12 29 View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps this woman had fallen on hard times and had had to sell a slave, and must now send her robes and veils to a commercial laundry.

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)

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12 26 Such women, she supposed, were above menial chores.
12 27 They would not, for example, do their own laundry.
12 28 High-caste women, in general, or those of the Merchants, she supposed, would not do their own laundry either, but they might have a slave, or slaves, in their own domiciles to attend to such work.
12 29 Perhaps this woman had fallen on hard times and had had to sell a slave, and must now send her robes and veils to a commercial laundry.
12 30 But perhaps she lived alone and thus chose to have the work sent out.
12 31 Certainly the work came back well-aired, clean-smelling, bright with sunlight, pressed and folded.
12 32 Ellen, sweating, almost fainting with the heat, the hot, dripping garment in her hands, knelt back for a moment, and, in the hot, moist, close, steaming atmosphere of the low-ceilinged room, gasped for breath.
Such women, she supposed, were above menial chores. They would not, for example, do their own laundry. High-caste women, in general, or those of the Merchants, she supposed, would not do their own laundry either, but they might have a slave, or slaves, in their own domiciles to attend to such work. Perhaps this woman had fallen on hard times and had had to sell a slave, and must now send her robes and veils to a commercial laundry. But perhaps she lived alone and thus chose to have the work sent out. Certainly the work came back well-aired, clean-smelling, bright with sunlight, pressed and folded. Ellen, sweating, almost fainting with the heat, the hot, dripping garment in her hands, knelt back for a moment, and, in the hot, moist, close, steaming atmosphere of the low-ceilinged room, gasped for breath. - (Prize of Gor)