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Boots

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	126	In addition, the mounted warriors inevitably wear a high, soft pair of boots called tharlarion boots.	10
1	110	After I had eaten, I removed my boots and coat and crawled into the sleeping bag.	10
1	160	I pulled on my boots and coat, rolled my sleeping bag, and fixed the pack.	10
2	41	My hunting boots were gone, my fur cap and the heavy coat and the rest of it.	10
10	210	Talena blushed and lowered her face, rubbing vigorously on the leather of my tharlarion boots.	10

Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	63	He wore a quilted jacket and under this a leather jerkin; the jacket was trimmed with fur and had a fur collar; his boots were made of hide and also trimmed with fur; he had a wide, five-buckled belt.	10
4	1	The Outcome of Spear Gambling The Tuchuk warrior lifted the lance in triumph, in the same instant slipping his fist into the retention knot and kicking the roweled heels of his boots into the silken flanks of his mount, the animal springing towards me and the rider in the same movement, as if one wi...	10
5	43	A girl could take only so much, and then she would kneel to her master, her head to his boots, and beg for a bit of clothing, even though it be only to be clad Kajir.	10
7	19	Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe...	10
8	53	The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c...	10
8	206	She stood on tiptoes in her furred boots and held the stirrup.	10
10	561	With his boots he kept rotating about, always facing Kamras no matter from which direction he came.	10
10	566	For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand.	10
12	166	Timidly Aphris rose and went to the thin rep-cloth blanket that was her bedding near the boots of Kamchak.	10
12	253	Aphris, for her part, though the quivas were still available, seemed, shortly after having begun to sleep at Kamchak's boots, for some reason to have thought the better of burying one in his heart.	10
21	69	I had just picked up the last stone and tucked it back in my pouch and was about to rise from my knees when I found myself staring at the high, heavy sandals, almost boots, of a warrior.	10
26	336	Slowly, not hurrying, in his boots he tramped across the rug, toward the sound.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	194	Many of the girls ran to individual warriors, their eyes shining, leaping up and seizing the stirrups, pulling themselves up and putting their cheeks against their soft leather boots.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	319	The Forkbeard was sitting on the end of his couch, his boots on the floor.	10
9	321	Her head was down; her hair was over his boots.	10
13	432	Hilda knelt at his feet, among the gold, the jewels, her lips pressed to his furred boots.	10
17	260	Some dug at the earth with their boots.	10

Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	798	Can one not hear the boots of totalitarianism approaching, ringing ever more clearly, ever nearer, on the terrified, deserted streets? Was a woman, I wondered, really better off on Earth? Was she happier there, I wondered, posing as a pseudo-male, amidst the remnants of ruined men? I wondered how ma...	10
8	181	I must gather brush and kaiila dung and make fires; I must cook the stews and porridges, and clean the pans and the bowls; I must shake out the mats and sweep the sand in the tents; I must rub the garments and polish the boots, and leather; I must do the mending and sewing; I weave; I make ropes; I ...	10
8	265	"I would lick the dust from his boots!" Suddenly she looked about.	10
13	103	Their desert boots were removed by kneeling slave girls, who then, with lavers and veminium water, and oils, pouring and cleaning, washed their feet.	10
15	84	"I jest not!" He wore desert boots, canvas trousers, baggy, a red sash; in the sash was thrust a dagger, curved.	10
17	119	He removed his shirt, and his boots.	10
22	108	I took what I needed, weapons and boots and clothing from the fallen rider.	10
23	6	I had taken even his boots.	10
23	170	Instead, suddenly, he turned in the saddle, lifting both arms, signaling to the lines, "Stop!" The lances of readiness and of the charge slipped to the stirrup boots.	10
24	977	With my boots I rolled the two fallen men from the room, closed the large double door and again turned to face Vella.	10
25	255	"Remove your boots," I told her.	10
26	6	My boots were in the stirrups.	10
26	796	She fell to the tiles before me, a half-hysterical, trembling, beaten slave, reaching for my ankles, pressing her lips, hot and wet, to my boots, her tears hot on the leather.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	271	He was similarly accoutered, with short sword, slung at the left hip, with a shoulder belt; a belt at his waist with a sheathed knife; heavy sandals, almost boots.	10
5	234	He wore otherwise only a tunic and the heavy sandals, almost boots, of a soldier.	10
9	2052	Kissing the master's cup is a token of submission, much like kissing his belt, his whip or boots.	10

Book 12. (36 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	236	Too, they had made the high fur boots of the northern woman and the brief panties of fur, to which the boots, extending to the crotch, reach.	10
20	52	The next song dealt with a rascal who, supposedly hunting for tabuk, lay down and rubbed his boots on a rock, later returning to his companions with a report of luckless hunting, indicating his worn boots as evidence of his lengthy trekking.	10
1	293	Even the performance of small servile tasks, such as the polishing of his tarn boots, which she must perform, plays its role in her preparation for the night.	10
3	199	He wore trousers of fur, and fur boots, which came to the knee.	10
3	276	In traversing the street I saw the fellow from the polar basin, he stripped to the waist, with fur trousers and boots.	10
3	728	I saw the fellow from the polar basin again, him with the fur trousers and boots, and the rope and short bow.	10
3	1109	How much?" It was the fellow from the polar basin, who wore no jacket, but fur trousers and boots, with the bow at his back, and the rawhide rope on his shoulder.	10
6	7	Her black boots, slick and shining, were spurred.	10
6	441	I recalled the dark-eyed, dark-haired girl, vital and trim in her carefully tailored hunting costume, with the tunic and hose, the boots, cape and feathered cap.	10
6	610	She squirmed, held, as he cut the tunic and cape from her, and then she was thrown on her belly on the grass and the wet hose and boots were drawn from her.	10
7	255	The boots of the men about me blurred, and then were clear, and then blurred again.	10
8	16	I wore loose trousers of fur, tied about my waist, and fur boots.	10
8	58	Her boots were of the fur of sea sleen, trimmed, too, with lart fur.	10
9	167	He was dressed as he had been at the fair, in trousers and boots of fur, but bare-chested.	10
10	207	Their boots, soft, of sleenskin, are high, and reach the crotch, instead of the knee.	10
11	139	Her fur boots were pulled off and her ankles were linked by leather thongs; she had good ankles; the leather permitted them a separation of some twelve inches; the tether on her wrists then was taken between her legs and lifted up and behind her, where its loose end was tied about her neck.	10
11	577	She bent her head to my feet and, through the fur of my boots, I felt her lips press against them.	10
12	20	"Now," said Thimble, "the boots".	10
12	21	In cold weather a layer of grass, for warmth, for insulation, changed daily, is placed in the bottom of the boots, between the inside sole of the boot and the foot of the stocking.	10
12	24	Arlene drew on the high boots.	10
12	255	She wore the high fur boots and panties of the woman of the north.	10
12	378	She was dressed, save for her bondage strings, in much the same way as most of the women of the red hunters, bare-breasted, with high boots and panties.	10
12	390	Grass, dried, is used for insulation between the inner soles of the boots and the bottom of the fur stockings in the winter.	10
14	257	He made a wild animal noise and, wheeling about, in his fur boots, sped rapidly back toward the tent of Kadluk.	10
14	361	At his gesture, she, frightened, pressed her lips to his boots, and then looked up at him, waiting to be commanded.	10
19	2	She, naked, was chewing the ice from my boots.	10
19	10	When she had finished with both boots she placed them on the drying rack.	10
20	176	They did not carry with them much grass for the boots or mosses for the wicks of lamps as these materials could be obtained readily somewhat inland of the permanent camps.	10
23	42	The snow was loud beneath our boots, crackling.	10
24	95	Who else will chew the ice from our boots, and sew for us, and boil meat and tend the lamps, and keep us warm in the furs?" He rolled over in the furs.	10
27	143	It is better for the fur not to be constantly put through this cycle of dampening and freezing; also, the heavy parka is rather large for the drying frame, which is generally used for smaller articles, like boots and mittens.	10
29	31	He wore fur trousers and boots, and some necklaces.	10
29	114	He, like Karjuk, was clad in boots and trousers.	10
35	1005	Barbara knelt, too, at my feet, putting her head down to my boots.	10
35	1132	I donned boots and fur trousers.	10
38	112	Perhaps Ivar Forkbeard, my friend, might enjoy her licking at his boots.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	501	"I wore boots, and a skirt and a short-sleeved blouse," she said, "and a helmet, of lightweight material, to protect me from the sun.	10
32	568	My old clothing, and my boots, which the girls, laughing, cut to pieces with small knives, were burned.	10

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	34	She wore a heavy, studded belt, tightly buckled, and heavy sandals, almost like boots, with thongs.	10
13	282	Their feet wore heavy, thick-soled sandals, which, almost like boots, with swirling leather, rose high about their calves.	10
18	143	She wore a full, beige skirt, the hem of which fell to within some six inches of the ground, and slim, high, black-leather boots; a beige blouse, and a beige jacket, belted, which fell to her thighs; too, she wore a loose hood, attached to the jacket by hooks, of matching beige material, and an opaq...	10
18	184	I observed the Mistress' ankles, which, below the swirling hem of the beige skirt, were well turned in the high, slim boots.	10
18	185	A slaver, of course, would remove such boots before shackling her.	10
18	199	I considered again the polished, black leather of her trim, high boots.	10
18	200	A free woman, of course, if she owns slaves, does not polish her own boots.	10
18	202	I suspected that it was Taphris, short-legged and luscious, who polished her boots.	10
18	310	Then, in a moment, in her swirling skirt, and hood and veil, and boots, quirt in hand, she stood before the five kajirae, members of her own sex, briefly tunicked, wearing feminine work collars, with rings, who knelt before her.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	191	And, too, I had learned, and I mused on this, that I wanted to own Miss Beverly Henderson, yes, literally own her, as a man on Earth might own a pair of boots, or a pig or a dog, or as a man on Gor might own, say, a tarsk or a pet sleen, or, lower than either, as he might own a slave.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	154	"When Reginald returned from the holding of Policrates, doubtless you met him, either on deck, or in the cabin, as a naked, kneeling slave, licking and kissing at his sea boots, begging to serve him".	10
9	34	"Put your head down, to their sea boots".	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	7	He wore, too, kaiila boots, with belled, silver heel points, kaiila goads.	10
8	506	She now, trembling, lay on her belly, licking and kissing at the auctioneer's kaiila boots.	10
8	535	Seven or eight men, in the boots and garb of drovers, thrust in the door.	10
11	114	"She is ready to lick boots!" said another.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	587	There is no difficulty, of course, in distinguishing between boots of the sort common with white riders and moccasins, the almost universal footwear of the red savages.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	342	I looked at their legs and feet beneath the table, the shoes of he who was most familiar to me, the work boots of the two others.	10

Book 20. (406 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	574	"I believe you are Boots Tarsk-Bit," said the officer, "of the company of Boots Tarsk-Bit".	10
2	581	"A mere jest!" "You are Boots Tarsk-Bit," said the officer, consulting an inked handbill, clipped with other papers, "Actor, Entrepreneur, and Impresario, of the company of Boots Tarsk-Bit?" "At your service," said the paunchy fellow, bowing low.	10
6	354	"Your generosity overwhelms me," cried Boots, "and had I ten thousand gold pieces I would doubtless gladly barter them for such a vision, but, alas, alack, I lack that mere ten thousand pieces of gold!" Boots turned to the crowd.	10
6	602	What, oh, what, shall I do? Where can I hide?" "Quickly," cried Boots, "here, beneath my robes!" Swiftly, on her knees, wildly, knowing not what else to do, the girl had scrambled to Boots.	10
6	1199	"Noble free woman, and noble gentlemen, of the audience," said Boots, "the Magic Veil of Anango, presented by the players of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur extraordinary! We thank you for your consideration!" There was much applause.	10
8	1	I Make Myself Useful to Boots Tarsk-Bit; I Will Also Show Him What I Have Found in the Woods "Release us!" demanded Boots Tarsk-Bit, on his knees, near the campfire, his arms roped to his sides.	10
8	55	There the other male members of Boots's company lay on their stomachs, bound, sly, agile Chino, simple Lecchio, Petrucchio, the tall, doleful "captain," and Publius Andronicus, supposedly the most famous actor in the company, saving perhaps the incredible Boots Tarsk-Bit himself.	10
11	57	"As you can see," said Boots, swiftly, enthusiastically, thinking like lightning, "she is, as advertised, as certified, a free woman! What more proof could you possibly desire? What slave would dare to behave so?" It was an excellent point which Boots was making.	10
11	86	I supposed that if Kamchak had known his name was being used in this fashion, and mispronounced at that, and Boots was within his grasp he might have, as a joke, for Kamchak was fond of jokes, had Boots put in a sack and put out in front of the bosk, curious to see if they would move in that directi...	10
13	4	"I had warned you," had moaned Boots, in his camp, "but you would not listen!" Five days ago I had been returning to the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, coming back from a nearby village where I had gone to fetch Sa-Tarna grain, from which the girls, back at the camp, using stones and flat rocks, sifters a...	10
15	1	What Occurred in the Camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit "Here he is!" cried Boots.	10
15	9	"Do not let him escape!" "Have no fear! He is in the keeping of Boots Tarsk-Bit," called Boots, "actor, promoter, entrepreneur and friend to the noble citizens of Brundisium!" He then approached me, carrying manacles.	10
2	399	It wore the cothornoi, a form of high platformlike boots, a long robe padded in such a way as to suggest an incredible breadth of shoulder, a large, painted linen mask, with exaggerated features, which covered the entire head, and the onkos, a towering, imposing headdress.	10
2	562	"You are Boots Tarsk-Bit?" asked a voice.	10
2	585	"Yes?" said the paunchy fellow, Boots Tarsk-Bit, pleasantly.	10
2	587	"Would you care to come to my quarters?" asked Boots.	10
2	590	"I scarcely ever read all the provisions of the licenses," said Boots.	10
2	593	"Of course!" said Boots, indignantly.	10
2	597	"Certainly," said Boots, fumbling about in his robes.	10
2	604	"Yes?" said Boots, turning back.	10
2	607	"I remember distinctly obtaining the license!" said Boots.	10
2	609	"Of course, it might have been last year," said Boots.	10
2	611	"Could I have neglected such a detail?" asked Boots, horrified.	10
2	614	"No!" cried Boots, in horror.	10
2	616	"What are you writing?" asked Boots anxiously.	10
2	618	"To what effect, may I inquire?" pressed Boots.	10
2	626	"Surely," I said to Boots Tarsk-Bit, "your players have taken in a silver tarsk?" "No," he said.	10
2	636	"I am ruined," said Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
2	638	"Boots Tarsk-Bit is an old friend of mine, a friend from long ago".	10
2	639	Boots looked at me, startled.	10
2	645	"Boots, of course, as is well known," I said, "is an honest fellow".	10
2	646	Boots looked startled.	10
2	648	"I do?" asked Boots.	10
2	651	"With what?" inquired Boots, speaking to me in an intense whisper.	10
2	653	"They are not even ten tarsks!" hissed Boots to me, his eyes bulging.	10
2	716	"It is no use, kind sirs," said Boots Tarsk-Bit, returning, carrying the two empty coin bowls.	10
2	719	"That contains earnings accruing to your troupe, does it not, from your Kaissa booth?" "Alas, it contains only three tarsk bits," lamented Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
2	723	"Very well," shrugged Boots.	10
2	732	Boots, his eyes wide, sorted through the coins in the pot.	10
2	734	"Three tarsk bits," said Boots, "—and five silver tarsks".	10
2	736	Boots counted out the coins and handed them to the officer.	10
2	738	Boots drew the last silver tarsk out of his sleeve and, sheepishly, handed it to the officer.	10
2	789	"Happy carnival," said I to Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
6	2	"Pull down your skirt, you slave, you brazen hussy!" "Pray, do withdraw, noble sir, for you surprise me arriving as you did I all unawares, and of necessity I must improvise some veiling, lest my features be disclosed," cried the girl upon the stage, Boots Tarsk-Bit's current Brigella.	10
6	18	"Though I be impoverished and am clad in rags, in naught but the meanness of tatters," said the Brigella to Boots Tarsk-Bit, he on the stage with her, he in the guise of a pompous, puffing, lecherous merchant, "know, and know well, noble sir, that I am a free woman!" This announcement, predictably, ...	10
6	42	"Are you truly free?" inquired Boots Tarsk-Bit, with exaggerated incredulity, in the guise of the merchant, of his Brigella.	10
6	45	Boots puffed across the stage, as though to obtain a better vantage point.	10
6	53	"Generally I do not see so much of them," Boots admitted, as the merchant.	10
6	55	"Often not half so much," said Boots.	10
6	60	"I should be pleased," Boots assured her, "if it were your intention to receive me at all, either properly or improperly".	10
6	62	"Indeed!" Boots cried enthusiastically.	10
6	69	"And you have a very lovely modesty," affirmed Boots admiringly.	10
6	71	"I thought you were a free woman," exclaimed Boots.	10
6	75	"Ah!" cried Boots, appreciatively.	10
6	77	"Face-stripped!" cried Boots, as though scandalized.	10
6	79	"Ah!" cried Boots.	10
6	81	"Face-stripped," said Boots, reprovingly.	10
6	126	"Are you the owner of this slave?" asked the free woman of Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
6	129	"Perhaps an excellent suggestion," said Boots Tarsk-Bit, "as she is a slave, but have you any special reason in mind, not that one needs one, of course".	10
6	131	"It is difficult to please everyone," Boots admitted.	10
6	134	"Yes, Lady," said Boots.	10
6	136	"Yes, Lady," said Boots, patiently.	10
6	139	"I see no reason to beat her," said Boots.	10
6	145	"Shall I beat her?" inquired Boots of the crowd.	10
6	150	"Have mercy on me, Lady," said Boots.	10
6	153	It is difficult to run a Gorean company of Boots's sort without a golden courtesan.	10
6	157	I already knew of Boots's difficulty.	10
6	161	"Last year I did not have one, admittedly, due to some fearful inadvertence," admitted Boots, "but I would not risk that twice at the Sardar Fair.	10
6	167	"I had to sell my golden courtesan to purchase one," said Boots.	10
6	169	"Yes, kind lady!" said Boots.	10
6	174	"Have mercy, kind lady," begged Boots.	10
6	227	"With your permission, Lady Telitsia?" inquired Boots, addressing himself politely to the haughty, rigid, proud, vain, heavily veiled, blue-clad free female standing in the front row below the stage.	10
6	229	"But you may find what ensues offensive," Boots warned her.	10
6	232	"You wish to remain?" asked Boots, puzzled.	10
6	237	"The simple beneficence of your presence, that of a noble free woman, is in itself a reward far beyond our deserving," Boots assured her.	10
6	250	"You may continue," said the Lady Telitsia, loftily, to Boots Tarsk-Bit, ignoring these remarks.	10
6	264	"Continue," signaled Boots Tarsk-Bit, himself returning to his comedic role.	10
6	265	"If I lift my skirt it seems I must reveal my modesty to a stranger," she wailed to the audience, "whereas should I lower it I must then, it seems, face-strip myself before him as brazenly as might a hussy! Oh, what is a poor girl to do?" "I myself, putatively lovely lady, have in my pack the answer...	10
6	282	"And it is the special property of this veil," Boots solemnly assured the girl, "that it is visible only to free persons".	10
6	284	"Perhaps not," said Boots, "but then who cares what slaves think?" "True," she said.	10
6	285	"Let me see it! Let me see it!" "But I have it here in my hand," said Boots.	10
6	290	Boots held the supposed cloth up, turning it about, displaying it.	10
6	291	"Have you ever seen anything like it?" asked Boots.	10
6	301	"Alas, also," said Boots, gloomily, proceeding to apparently fold the cloth.	10
6	313	"In any event," said Boots, "surely you would not be so cruel, so heartless, so insensitive, as to suggest that I even consider using the scissors, that cruel engine, those divisive knives, upon so wondrous an object".	10
6	315	"I wish you well, lady," said Boots, sadly, preparing to return the veil to his pack.	10
6	317	"Oh?" asked Boots.	10
6	319	"Anything?" asked Boots, hopefully.	10
6	321	"Perhaps," mused Boots.	10
6	325	"Unthinkable!" announced Boots.	10
6	338	In a sense what Boots was saying was correct.	10
6	341	"And so I wonder," said Boots, "if in exchange for this wondrous veil I might be granted the briefest of peeps at your priceless beauty".	10
6	343	"Forgive me, lady!" cried Boots, as though in horror at the enormity of what he had suggested.	10
6	345	"I must be on my way," said Boots, resignedly.	10
6	348	"Yes?" said Boots.	10
6	350	"I hesitate to call this to your attention," said Boots, "but as you may not have noticed, as you are not hosed and gloved, such bold glimpses are already mine".	10
6	370	Boots, I saw, had followed this small exchange from the stage.	10
6	371	"Nine thousand pieces of gold, then," called the Brigella to Boots.	10
6	374	Boots, with a great flourish, shook out the magic veil and displayed it shamelessly, so cruelly tempting her, awing her with its splendors.	10
6	376	"Oh! Oh!" "Well," said Boots, seemingly folding the cloth, "I must be on my way".	10
6	378	"Five thousand? One thousand!" "Oh, curse my poverty," cried Boots, "that I cannot take advantage of so golden an opportunity!" "I must have it," she wailed to the audience, "but I do not know what to do!" Many then were the suggestions called out to the bewildered Brigella from the audience, not al...	10
6	390	"May I make a suggestion?" inquired Boots.	10
6	393	Then, if you decide, in your nobility, to deny me even the briefest of peeps, what harm could possibly have been done?" "A splendid suggestion, kind sir," she said, "but where, in this fair meadow, at the side of a public road, will I find suitable privacy?" "Here!" said Boots, lifting up the veil.	10
6	395	"As you can see," said Boots, "it is as opaque as it is beautiful".	10
6	399	"Then?" asked Boots.	10
6	401	Boots obliged.	10
6	408	"Are you absolutely naked now?" asked Boots, as though he could not see her.	10
6	420	I suspected that this Brigella was not destined to long remain a member of the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
6	425	"Why thank you, lady," said Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
6	427	"No, lady!" exclaimed Boots, innocently.	10
6	436	"Are you truly naked?" asked Boots.	10
6	439	"Yes," she called out to Boots.	10
6	440	"But how can I know if you are truly naked?" inquired Boots, ogling her.	10
6	442	"With all due respect, noble lady," said Boots, "in a transaction of this momentous nature, I believe it is only fair that I be granted assurances of a somewhat greater magnitude".	10
6	446	"Do not mistake me, kind lady," cried Boots, horrified.	10
6	453	"But of what relevance might that be?" asked Boots, innocently.	10
6	459	Boots, in effect, in the context of the play, had tricked her into placing her clothing at his feet.	10
6	461	"Hold up the veil," said Boots to the Brigella.	10
6	463	"I must count the garments," said Boots, seriously.	10
6	465	"Oh, the veil is so light!" "It is exactly like holding nothing up at all," Boots granted her.	10
6	467	Boots then made a great pretense of counting the garments.	10
6	470	Meanwhile Boots thrust the garments into his pack.	10
6	472	"It would seem so," said Boots, "unless perhaps you are now wearing a second set of garments, a secret set, which was cleverly concealed beneath the first set".	10
6	474	"I suppose even in matters this momentous," said Boots, "there comes a time when some exchange of trust is in order".	10
6	476	"Very well," said Boots.	10
6	478	"Then!" cried Boots.	10
6	482	"Oh, intrepid inference!" cried Boots.	10
6	484	"Hold the veil higher," said Boots.	10
6	487	"Splendid!" said Boots.	10
6	492	"Ah!" cried Boots.	10
6	494	"Yes," cried Boots, "it is my active imagination, conjecturing what exposed beauty must lie perfectly concealed behind the impervious barrier of that heartless veil".	10
6	498	"Ah!" cried Boots.	10
6	500	Boots pounded his thighs.	10
6	502	"Let me, dear lady," said Boots, "hold the veil.	10
6	505	"Do you have it now?" "Of course," said Boots, as though astonished at her question.	10
6	514	Suddenly, with a cry of apprehension, looking down the road, Boots snapped away the cloth and whipped it behind his back, seeming to stuff it in his belt, behind his back.	10
6	530	"Would you rather be apprehended by the brigands?" inquired Boots of the Brigella.	10
6	549	"They were Initiates!" "I am sorry," said Boots, apologetically.	10
6	553	"But you have not yet given me my peep," protested Boots.	10
6	555	"Consider how you are standing," said Boots, "half turned away from me, half crouched down, and holding your legs as you are, and with your hands and arms placed as they are, such things seem scarcely fair to me.	10
6	558	"It is a simple matter of bargaining in good faith," said Boots.	10
6	560	"Perhaps we could get a ruling on the matter from a praetor," suggested Boots.	10
6	562	"I see that I must be on my way," said Boots.	10
6	564	"I must have that wondrous veil!" "Not without my peep," said Boots.	10
6	581	Boots, then, it seemed always just minimally short of success, continued dauntlessly to search for a suitable peep.	10
6	595	"Look," cried Boots to the Brigella, in his guise of a merchant.	10
6	597	"I think it is a woman," said Boots.	10
6	599	She looked up at Boots, wildly.	10
6	604	"I see, sir," said the newcomer, who was understood to be the free woman, the Lady Tipa, but was presumably Boots's Bina, usually the companion and confidante of the Brigella, "that you well know how to put a slave through her paces".	10
6	605	"Why, thank you, noble lady," said Boots.	10
6	607	"Is she pretty?" "Some might think her passable," said Boots, "but compared to yourself her beauty is doubtless no more than that of a she-urt to that of the preferred slave of a Ubar".	10
6	608	The Brigella churned with rage beneath Boots's robes.	10
6	611	"She burns with desire," said Boots.	10
6	613	"Yes," said Boots.	10
6	616	"Could you describe her?" asked Boots.	10
6	618	The girl under Boots's robes shook with fury.	10
6	621	At this there was more churning beneath Boots's robes.	10
6	623	"No, no," Boots assured her.	10
6	628	"Thank you," said Boots.	10
6	631	"Only that she begs to be permitted to begin," said Boots.	10
6	634	"It is only that she is suffering with need," said Boots.	10
6	638	"How understanding you are," marveled Boots.	10
6	642	"She is shy," said Boots.	10
6	645	"Begin," said Boots.	10
6	649	Boots then, with the flat of his hand, with some force, cuffed the girl concealed under his robes.	10
6	651	"Lazy girl, naughty girl," chided Boots.	10
6	655	"She begins!" "Oh, she does, doesn't she?" said Boots.	10
6	657	"How exciting! How exciting!" "To be sure," agreed Boots.	10
6	659	Boots then wiped his brow with his sleeve.	10
6	661	"Yes," said Boots.	10
6	662	The Brigella, as the Lady Phoebe, extricated herself, on her knees, from the robes of Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
6	665	"I thought you had gone," said Boots.	10
6	682	"Perhaps not," said Boots, soothingly.	10
6	686	"Where can I go? What can I do?" "Well," said Boots, "I must be on my way".	10
6	688	"Try to avoid being eaten by sleen," said Boots.	10
6	691	"I do not see them about," said Boots.	10
6	703	"I am willing, even, to enter into the free companionship with you!" Boots staggered backwards, as though overwhelmed.	10
6	707	"But I suspect," said Boots suspiciously, musingly, regarding her, "that there may be that in you which is not really of the free companion".	10
6	749	"Do not fret, girl," said Boots.	10
6	759	"Yes," said Boots, struggling to keep a straight face.	10
6	763	"Forgive me, Lady," said Boots, trying not to laugh.	10
6	768	"Will you not then accept me as a free companion, noble sir?" called the Brigella to Boots, in his guise as the merchant.	10
6	769	"It is the collar for you, or nothing," said Boots, grandly.	10
6	771	"Though I may be a slave in my heart," cried the Brigella, leaping to her feet, "I am surely not a legal slave and thus, as yet, am bond to neither you nor any man!" "Many are the slaves who do not yet wear their collars," said Boots, meditatively, and then, suddenly, turned about and, to the amusem...	10
6	777	"I must soon be on my way," said Boots to the Brigella, chuckling, trying to return to the play.	10
6	789	"They do seem so," admitted Boots.	10
6	797	"Why one who hunts for feed, of course," said Boots.	10
6	804	"It probably depends on the girl," said Boots.	10
6	808	"I am inclined to agree with you, though," said Boots, "all things considered, but then, of course, I am not a feed hunter".	10
6	810	"Have it your own way," said Boots.	10
6	812	"Do not seek to do it again!" "Have it your own way," said Boots.	10
6	814	"Yes," said Boots.	10
6	818	She then, in accordance with a common Gorean theatrical convention, trekked about the stage in a circle, while Boots withdrew to one side.	10
6	821	These two fellows, of course, were Boots's Chino and Lecchio, now largely garbed in tatters of yellow and white, the colors of the merchants.	10
6	880	In a moment or two the Brigella had again reached the vicinity of Boots Tarsk-Bit who turned about, congenially enough, effecting some surprise at the sight of her.	10
6	883	"I beg your collar! I beg your collar!" "Your head is rather high," said Boots.	10
6	885	"I wonder how you would look on your belly," said Boots.	10
6	887	"My feet and sandals are rather dusty, from the road," said Boots.	10
6	889	"You may kiss them, as well," Boots informed her.	10
6	891	"Did you wish to speak to me?" inquired Boots.	10
6	893	"I beg your collar!" "You may kneel before me, with your knees spread," said Boots.	10
6	898	"Now," said Boots, "what was it that you wanted to speak to me about?" "I want your collar," she said.	10
6	899	"I beg it!" "I have given some thought to this matter," said Boots, "and I have decided against it".	10
6	926	"May we have Lady Telitsia's permission to continue," inquired Boots, not too pleased with the interruption.	10
6	936	"It is true," said Boots, "that at one time I thought you might be a slave".	10
6	938	"But I think I was wrong," said Boots.	10
6	940	"You were right! You were right!" "You are a slave, really?" asked Boots.	10
6	943	"You do have slave curves," admitted Boots.	10
6	945	"Very well," said Boots.	10
6	949	"Surely you must understand," said Boots to the Brigella, "that two quite different matters are under consideration here.	10
6	957	"Disciplinary devices, such as whips and chains, too, can be expensive," said Boots.	10
6	959	"Who?" asked Boots.	10
6	961	"Oh," said Boots.	10
6	963	"I entreat you, implore you, to show me mercy! Deign, in your graciousness, to consider my humble petition!" "What was it again," asked Boots.	10
6	966	"I beg to be made your slave!" "Oh, yes," said Boots.	10
6	970	"Then perhaps you should apply to another master," said Boots.	10
6	972	"We must all start somewhere! I will be zealous and obedient!" "I think you are right," said Lecchio to Chino, looking in the direction of Boots and the Brigella.	10
6	974	"There is little time!" "I will give you my answer in the morning," said Boots.	10
6	984	"Do you think you can be pleasing?" asked Boots.	10
6	987	"Yes," she cried, "yes!" "Good," said Boots.	10
6	990	"Why not?" asked Boots.	10
6	991	"Then you would miss a night's pleasure," she said, desperately, wildly, "or perhaps even my use, at your slightest whim, for a few days!" "That is true," mused Boots.	10
6	994	"Please, please, Master!" "What did you call me?" asked Boots.	10
6	996	"Oh, very well," said Boots.	10
6	998	Boots stood between her and the audience and seemed to reach into his pack.	10
6	1004	"Who are you fellows?" called Boots.	10
6	1005	"What do you want?" The Brigella, now collared, trembling, cowered beside Boots, clinging to one of his legs.	10
6	1009	"Assassins!" cried Boots.	10
6	1011	"Feed hunters!" cried Boots, aghast.	10
6	1016	"I heard that two such rascals as yourselves were about," said Boots.	10
6	1019	"Her?" inquired Boots.	10
6	1022	"Hold, rogues!" said Boots.	10
6	1024	"You cannot have her," said Boots.	10
6	1032	"Desist!" cried Boots.	10
6	1034	"Apparently," said Boots, "you are under the delusion that this is a free woman, one that may simply be picked up, like a larma in a field, for whatever purposes you might please".	10
6	1036	"She is not a free woman," said Boots.	10
6	1038	"Observe her pretty neck," said Boots.	10
6	1040	"Yes!" said Boots.	10
6	1042	"Yes," said Boots.	10
6	1044	"Stop!" cried Boots.	10
6	1047	"This woman is both claimed and collared," said Boots.	10
6	1050	"Are you thieves?" asked Boots.	10
6	1055	"Then desist, scoundrels," said Boots, "for this woman is my property!" "Is it true?" asked Chino.	10
6	1061	"I do not fear you!" said Boots.	10
6	1063	"Be gone, scamps, scoundrels, rogues!" cried Boots, with a vast, wild threatening gesture.	10
6	1066	"Yes," said Boots.	10
6	1069	"Why, yes," said Boots, interested.	10
6	1071	"And then anything may be commanded of you," mused Boots, "absolutely anything, anything whatsoever, and you must obey, instantly and perfectly".	10
6	1077	"Now, for the merest instant," said Boots, "move your hands away, and then replace them, instantly, immediately, as they were".	10
6	1080	"Yes, yes!" cried Boots ecstatically.	10
6	1082	"A peep!" cried Boots.	10
6	1085	"Give me then," she cried, suddenly, "the wondrous magic veil!" "Alas," cried Boots.	10
6	1089	"What I negotiated for, as you may recall," said Boots, "was a peep at the beauty of a free woman, not a peep at the beauty of a mere slave".	10
6	1091	"If that were all one wished," said Boots, "one could go to the nearest market, to see girls naked in their chains".	10
6	1118	"That is not really true," said Boots, "for you are now a slave".	10
6	1127	I have been through so much! Please let me have it!" "My benevolence may perhaps yet prove my undoing," said Boots, reaching into his pack.	10
6	1129	"I have it here," said Boots, supposedly producing it, "but you, of course, now that you are a slave, will not be able to see it".	10
6	1131	"No!" cried Boots.	10
6	1140	Boots seemed to be folding up the veil, neatly.	10
6	1144	The wondrous veil is now to be mine! Thus it is that I, with my beauty, can conquer men!" "Here," said Boots.	10
6	1146	"Oh!" she cried, in disappointment, for Boots, at the last moment, had jerked it back.	10
6	1147	"I forgot," said Boots.	10
6	1151	"You are a slave," said Boots.	10
6	1161	"The feed hunters have returned!" "Greetings, Boys," said Boots.	10
6	1162	"Greetings," said Chino and Lecchio to Boots.	10
6	1164	"I mistook you for feed hunters earlier," said Boots to the new arrivals.	10
6	1171	"I am now going to toss this wondrous veil up into the air," said Boots.	10
6	1175	"There it goes!" said Boots.	10
6	1177	"It was in such a fashion that I received it," said Boots.	10
6	1180	"It has served its purpose," said Boots.	10
6	1182	"Yes," said Boots.	10
6	1185	"Shoulder my pack," said Boots.	10
6	1189	"Hurry, lazy girl!" called Boots, leaving the stage with Chino and Lecchio.	10
6	1193	"In any event," she said, "I am now in the collar, and that is all there is for it!" "Hurry, hurry, lazy girl!" called Boots from off-stage.	10
6	1198	In a moment Boots, smiling, reappeared on the stage, with Chino and Lecchio, and the Brigella, too, now freed of her preposterous burden.	10
6	1200	Boots, and the Chino and Lecchio, smiling, bowed, again and again.	10
6	1201	The Brigella, at a sign from Boots, knelt on the stage.	10
6	1203	"Bina!" called Boots, gesturing to the side of the stage.	10
6	1205	"Off with those absurd impediments to our vision," said Boots, jollily, to her.	10
6	1210	"Come, come," said Boots, her master.	10
6	1214	"Off with them, now, completely," said Boots, gesturing to the robes she had clutched about her hips.	10
6	1217	Boots gave her an almost unnoticeable kick with the side of his foot and she spread her knees before the audience.	10
6	1221	"Our little Bina!" said Boots, showing her off.	10
6	1222	"Thank you, noble free woman and noble gentlemen! Remember poor Boots and his company! Be generous!" Some coins, mostly copper, rattled to the stage.	10
6	1226	"Thank you, noble people, splendid patrons of the arts," called Boots.	10
6	1227	"Thank you!" The Chino and Lecchio gathered up the coins, handing them to Boots, who took them and deposited them somewhere inside his robes, perhaps into the lining or a hidden pocket.	10
6	1238	"Yes, noble lady?" said Boots, coming forward.	10
6	1240	"I have never been so insulted in my life!" "Have you seen them all?" asked Boots.	10
6	1243	"I have not seen them all!" "We cannot perform them all without a full company, of course," said Boots.	10
6	1258	"I would suppose that women are all pretty much of a muchness," said Boots.	10
6	1262	"Forgive me, Lady," said Boots.	10
6	1265	"Show us mercy, Lady," said Boots, "we are a traveling company, a poor troupe in desperate straits.	10
6	1276	Boots Tarsk-Bit and myself, as she left, considered her ankles.	10
6	1277	I did not find them bad, and I suppose Boots Tarsk-Bit did not either.	10
6	1279	"It seems I am ruined," said Boots Tarsk-Bit to me.	10
6	1287	"What am I offered?" asked Boots, resignedly.	10
6	1289	"Two?" asked Boots, surprised, pleased.	10
6	1296	"A splendid price on her," I congratulated Boots.	10
6	1300	"Do I not know you from somewhere?" asked Boots.	10
6	1304	"What do you want of me?" asked Boots, warily.	10
6	1307	"I fear," said Boots, "that I may be indebted to you in the matter of five silver tarsks in Port Kar.	10
6	1311	"Oh," said Boots.	10
6	1315	"I accept them, then, in the name of the arts," said Boots.	10
6	1317	"You have no idea how that arrangement assuages the agonies of conscience with which I might otherwise have been afflicted," said Boots.	10
6	1319	"Thank you," said Boots.	10
6	1324	"I wonder if you forgot to express your appreciation," asked Boots, rather apologetically.	10
6	1335	'" "A slave?" asked Boots.	10
6	1337	"Can she act?" asked Boots.	10
6	1341	"My girls, you must understand," said Boots, "are not ordinary girls.	10
6	1344	"That will do," said Boots.	10
6	1346	"That is true," said Boots.	10
6	1357	On the other hand, I had tried to arrange it earlier in such a way that she would not be sold until the eighteenth Ahn, at least, by which time I expected to be able to get Boots Tarsk-Bit to look at her.	10
6	1367	"Perhaps you would be so good as to impart this information," said Boots.	10
6	1369	"Particularly," said Boots, "if we are attempting to get in an extra performance or two".	10
6	1371	"What do you want?" asked Boots.	10
6	1373	"Sometimes," said Boots, warily.	10
6	1376	"In what way?" asked Boots.	10
6	1378	"Perhaps," said Boots.	10
6	1398	"Has she a name?" asked Boots.	10
6	1401	"What was it?" asked Boots.	10
6	1403	"Thank you," said Boots.	10
7	28	It read, "If you find me, return me to Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
7	30	Boots used such collars for all his slaves.	10
7	49	"In any event," I had said to Boots Tarsk-Bit, a few days ago, "let me show you the girl".	10
7	53	I had then conducted Boots to the area where the agents of Samos had his hundred girls on sale, sent out from Port Kar for vending during the Fair of En'Kara.	10
7	178	Too, did she think her discipline would be relaxed because someone might be interested in her? No! It would be trebled! "Ah!" had cried Boots, later, about the seventeenth Ahn, when he had first seen her.	10
7	181	"Oh?" said Boots.	10
7	183	"Let us take a look at her," said Boots.	10
7	184	In the end Boots got her for two silver tarsks.	10
7	186	Too, she seemed ideal for Boots's purposes.	10
7	188	Too, getting her for two silver tarsks, though perhaps somewhat more than Boots cared to pay, left him a full three silver tarsks, the residue of his profit from the sale of the Brigella.	10
7	190	"I do not know what I shall do without my Brigella," moaned Boots, preparing to pay the slaver's man.	10
7	193	"There are more Brigella roles," said Boots.	10
7	195	"True," lamented Boots.	10
7	197	"I needed the money," said Boots.	10
7	199	"The price is steep," said Boots.	10
7	203	"I have the cups and a pebble, by some stroke of luck, in my wallet," said Boots.	10
7	210	I was already familiar with Boots's skill in slight-of-hand manipulations from Port Kar.	10
7	212	Boots then paid him.	10
7	215	I had no difficulty in recovering my ten copper tarsks, put down to hold the girl for Boots's later inspection.	10
7	216	"Are you pleased with your buy?" I asked Boots later, when we were leaving the market, the girl following behind us, heeling us, her wrists tied behind her back with a string.	10
7	217	"She was pretty expensive," said Boots.	10
7	227	"You are correct," said Boots.	10
7	235	"No," said Boots, "and what am I to do without a Brigella?" "I do not know," I said.	10
7	236	"I am ruined," said Boots.	10
7	240	"I will thank you, then," said Boots, "to have the decency to refrain from forming an opinion on the matter".	10
7	248	"Perhaps," said Boots.	10
7	250	"It is out of the question," said Boots.	10
7	258	Security in Brundisium, I had learned earlier from Boots, was tight.	10
7	264	I was sorry that I had not been able to join Boots's troupe.	10
7	267	Tomorrow, before nightfall, I suspected, Boots's wagons would leave the fair, probably heading west, probably on the road of Clearchus.	10
7	270	Boots had disappeared now among the booths and stalls of the fair.	10
7	281	I had traveled for the last few days in the vicinity of the troupe of Boots, but not really with it.	10
7	282	We had traversed the woods of Clearchus, Boots losing little time in the business, without incident.	10
7	288	Boots was now trying to make do with his Chino and Lecchio, two other fellows, his Bina and his new "golden courtesan".	10
7	292	Boots himself was very skillful in the matter of slight-of-hand and magic.	10
7	297	Boots's player, incidentally, the Kaissa player, the surly, masked fellow, called usually "the monster" in the camp, remained, too, with the troupe.	10
7	298	He remained, as far as I could tell, from what I had heard this afternoon, consistently and insolently adamant to Boots's pleas that he manage to lose a game once in a while, if only for the sake of business, or, at the least, make an effort to play a bit less well.	10
7	357	I could hear Boots outside the tent.	10
7	359	"Lamentations!" cried Boots.	10
7	360	"Surely we are ruined! Surely we shall all starve! There are not two copper tarsks in the coin kettle! What hope is there these days for artists such as we! That the skilled and famous company of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur, that company whose performances are commanded by high...	10
7	361	What shall be our fate first, I wonder, to merely starve in simple dignity or to perish in shame from such humiliation?" "You are wrong about at least one thing, Boots," said Chino.	10
7	362	"Can it be?" asked Boots.	10
7	365	"Oh?" said Boots.	10
7	369	"Are you sure?" asked Boots.	10
7	371	"Yes," said Boots.	10
7	390	"The somersault on the rope was very good," Boots was telling Lecchio.	10
7	392	Boots's little Bina was chained in another tent.	10
7	394	"Perhaps even three times, and backwards," Boots was saying.	10
7	398	I had gathered, from various tiny indications, back at the fair, and this afternoon, that Boots was not altogether satisfied with her.	10
7	404	"It was funny, too," said Boots, "when you pretended to fall off the rope.	10
7	409	I supposed I might as well soon depart from the neighborhood of Boots's company.	10
7	424	"Ho!" I heard Boots call, suddenly.	10
7	431	"Who are you?" called Boots.	10
7	435	"Come forward," called Boots.	10
8	3	This was inappropriate as Boots was a free person.	10
8	5	"Your conduct," sputtered Boots, "is deplorable.	10
8	6	I am Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur.	10
8	10	"Shall I cut his throat?" asked one of the brigands, taking Boots by the hair and pulling his head back.	10
8	13	Boots grunted as his head was jerked farther back.	10
8	15	"You had only to ask," said Boots.	10
8	17	"On a nail, inside of the door of my wagon, the large wagon with the red roof, on the left," said Boots.	10
8	20	"What are you going to do with us?" asked Boots.	10
8	22	I saw another fellow start toward Boots's wagon, presumably to fetch the keys to Bina's and Rowena's ankle rings.	10
8	25	"Do you call this money?" asked the leader of the brigands, shaking the coin kettle under Boots's nose.	10
8	26	"Why, yes," said Boots, looking into the kettle.	10
8	29	"I agree," said Boots.	10
8	52	"What moneys are there here?" demanded the chief of the brigands of Boots.	10
8	53	Boots was silent.	10
8	60	Boots was quite impressed with him.	10
8	63	At any rate it did not seem that the repertory of Boots's company, as I was familiar with it at least, was richly or unusually endowed with roles of such a nature.	10
8	65	"Take what you want," said Boots.	10
8	68	"No!" cried Boots.	10
8	74	"No," said Boots.	10
8	78	He then made his way to Boots's wagon.	10
8	80	"I know of little else that might be of value to you," said Boots.	10
8	305	"You!" cried Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
8	314	I looked at Boots.	10
8	336	"We are grateful," Boots assured me.	10
8	339	"Do not mind him," said Boots.	10
8	342	"But you are grateful?" I said to Boots.	10
8	345	"Eternally, undyingly?" I asked Boots, smiling.	10
8	348	"How is that?" asked Boots, interested.	10
8	354	"What is it?" asked Boots.	10
9	1	Two Women, One Free, One Bond; I Join the Company of Boots Tarsk-Bit "Here," I said.	10
9	3	"Yes!" said Boots, appreciatively.	10