Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 28 | 460 | "How so?" View more quotes about asked">asked Lord Nishida, interested. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 28 | 457 | "We have discovered our assassin," said Lord Nishida. |
| 28 | 458 | "This man, whose head is still muchly in his helmet, is Lykourgos, and this other, he with the crossbow, is Quintus, so one or the other, perhaps both, are of the Assassins". |
| 28 | 459 | "Both may have attempted the work of the assassin," I said, "but neither, I fear, are of the Assassins". |
| 28 | 460 | "How so?" asked Lord Nishida, interested. |
| 28 | 461 | "This man," I said, indicating he who had been caught beneath the chin by the edged buckler, "rushed clumsily from the darkness. |
| 28 | 462 | He lacked the skill one would expect from a professional at dark work, and the other, he with the crossbow, did not risk a miss, preferring to leave the strike to the knife of his confederate, he himself then serving muchly as support, either for a second strike, or, more likely, to disconcert any who might too quickly approach, to cover the retreat of his companion. |
| 28 | 463 | The professional assassin, I would suppose, would have trusted to his own quarrel, and not waited. |
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"We have discovered our assassin," said Lord Nishida.
"This man, whose head is still muchly in his helmet, is Lykourgos, and this other, he with the crossbow, is Quintus, so one or the other, perhaps both, are of the Assassins".
"Both may have attempted the work of the assassin," I said, "but neither, I fear, are of the Assassins".
"How so?" asked Lord Nishida, interested.
"This man," I said, indicating he who had been caught beneath the chin by the edged buckler, "rushed clumsily from the darkness.
He lacked the skill one would expect from a professional at dark work, and the other, he with the crossbow, did not risk a miss, preferring to leave the strike to the knife of his confederate, he himself then serving muchly as support, either for a second strike, or, more likely, to disconcert any who might too quickly approach, to cover the retreat of his companion.
The professional assassin, I would suppose, would have trusted to his own quarrel, and not waited.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)