Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 78 | I am View more quotes about english">English, but I was not derived, as far as I knew, at least recently, from strata in English society where such formalities or precedences much mattered. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 75 | He seemed surprised that I had greeted him first. |
| 8 | 76 | As he had come, presumably, to render us a service, to conduct us somewhere, his station, quite possibly, would have been subordinate to ours. |
| 8 | 77 | I had never, however, put great store in protocol. |
| 8 | 78 | I am English, but I was not derived, as far as I knew, at least recently, from strata in English society where such formalities or precedences much mattered. |
| 8 | 79 | Too, I had lived for several months in the colonies, so to speak, and, as is well known, they tend be careless in such matters, even to the point of embarrassment. |
| 8 | 80 | I sensed, however, that proprieties of one sort or another might be not only extremely important to this fellow, but might, to a large extent, govern his life. |
| 8 | 81 | "Tal," he said. |
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He seemed surprised that I had greeted him first.
As he had come, presumably, to render us a service, to conduct us somewhere, his station, quite possibly, would have been subordinate to ours.
I had never, however, put great store in protocol.
I am English, but I was not derived, as far as I knew, at least recently, from strata in English society where such formalities or precedences much mattered.
Too, I had lived for several months in the colonies, so to speak, and, as is well known, they tend be careless in such matters, even to the point of embarrassment.
I sensed, however, that proprieties of one sort or another might be not only extremely important to this fellow, but might, to a large extent, govern his life.
"Tal," he said.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)