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| 13 | 106 | A wiser option on your View more quotes about part">part, Captain, permit me to say, would be to hold us as hostages and wait, demanding a goodly share of the riches for our release". |
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| 13 | 103 | Doubtless you could kill us and flee for your lives. |
| 13 | 104 | That is true. |
| 13 | 105 | But then you would receive no share of the unaccountable wealth to be derived from The Village of Flowing Gold. |
| 13 | 106 | A wiser option on your part, Captain, permit me to say, would be to hold us as hostages and wait, demanding a goodly share of the riches for our release". |
| 13 | 107 | "You would make this case to your main force?" I asked. |
| 13 | 108 | "Yes," he said. |
| 13 | 109 | "You are sure that your leaders, say, Laios and Ctesippus, would negotiate in good faith?" "Certainly," he said. |