Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 35 | 111 | Demetrion's aides were as reluctant as he to stoop to retrieve the View more quotes about small">small, but weighty sack. |
| 35 | 112 | The two Scribes, as well, looked away. |
| 35 | 113 | Little love is lost between the Scribes and Merchants. |
| 35 | 114 | The Scribes is a high caste and the Merchants is the richest caste. |
| 35 | 115 | Each therefore regards itself as superior to the other, and each, then, would be reluctant to seem to lower itself before the other. |
| 35 | 116 | I would have been quite willing to retrieve the sack and deliver it to Demetrion, but Phillip, my superior, was in his party, and there is, of course, the dignity, and the prestige, of the caste to maintain. |
| 35 | 117 | To my surprise, the stranger left my side, and slipped, unprevented, between the guardsmen, retrieved the sack, assured himself, it seemed, of its weight, which was apparently impressive, and climbed up the gangplank. |
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Demetrion's aides were as reluctant as he to stoop to retrieve the small, but weighty sack.
The two Scribes, as well, looked away.
Little love is lost between the Scribes and Merchants.
The Scribes is a high caste and the Merchants is the richest caste.
Each therefore regards itself as superior to the other, and each, then, would be reluctant to seem to lower itself before the other.
I would have been quite willing to retrieve the sack and deliver it to Demetrion, but Phillip, my superior, was in his party, and there is, of course, the dignity, and the prestige, of the caste to maintain.
To my surprise, the stranger left my side, and slipped, unprevented, between the guardsmen, retrieved the sack, assured himself, it seemed, of its weight, which was apparently impressive, and climbed up the gangplank.
- (Mariners of Gor)