Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 140 | It had View more quotes about something">something to do with the door, with her fear that I might force her from the room. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 137 | I thought that the Priest-Kings possessed great wealth and that I, with my beauty—" she turned and looked at me and threw back her head—"for I am beautiful, am I not?" I looked at her. |
| 5 | 138 | And though her face was stained with the tears of her recent terror and her hair and robes were disarranged, she was beautiful, perhaps the more so because of her distress, which had at least shattered the icy aloofness with which she had originally regarded me. |
| 5 | 139 | I knew that she now feared me, but for what reason I was uncertain. |
| 5 | 140 | It had something to do with the door, with her fear that I might force her from the room. |
| 5 | 141 | "Yes," I said to her, "you are beautiful". |
| 5 | 142 | She laughed bitterly. |
| 5 | 143 | "Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the Priest-Kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the Priest-Kings not men?" People had strange reasons for entering the Sardar, but the reason of the girl who called herself Vika seemed to me one of the most incredible. |
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I thought that the Priest-Kings possessed great wealth and that I, with my beauty—" she turned and looked at me and threw back her head—"for I am beautiful, am I not?" I looked at her.
And though her face was stained with the tears of her recent terror and her hair and robes were disarranged, she was beautiful, perhaps the more so because of her distress, which had at least shattered the icy aloofness with which she had originally regarded me.
I knew that she now feared me, but for what reason I was uncertain.
It had something to do with the door, with her fear that I might force her from the room.
"Yes," I said to her, "you are beautiful".
She laughed bitterly.
"Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the Priest-Kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the Priest-Kings not men?" People had strange reasons for entering the Sardar, but the reason of the girl who called herself Vika seemed to me one of the most incredible.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)