| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 414 |
"This is Ibn Saran, salt merchant of the river port of Kasra," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 421 |
"Ibn Saran, in the past months, has heard an unusual thing," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 425 |
"The noble Samos has been most kind," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 427 |
I extended my hand to Ibn Saran and he, bowing twice, brushed twice the palm of his hand against mine. |
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| 1 | 428 |
"I am pleased to make the acquaintance of he who is friend to Samos of Port Kar," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 433 |
"If it pleases you, noble Ibn Saran," said Samos, "would you speak before my friend what heard you in Kasra". |
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| 1 | 466 |
"By noon," said Ibn Saran, "the boy was found. |
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| 1 | 470 |
"What," I asked, "was the story of the boy?" "What, in pursuing the kaiila, he found," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 474 |
"Near the rock, dead," said Ibn Saran, "blistered, blackened by the sun, dried, weighing no more than a child or woman, was a man. |
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| 1 | 478 |
"It, judging from discarded accouterments," said Ibn Saran, "was a raider". |
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| 1 | 480 |
"No," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 482 |
"How long had he been on the desert?" "I do not know," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 485 |
Ibn Saran smiled thinly. |
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| 1 | 491 |
"That was scratched on the rock," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 493 |
"No," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 496 |
Samos rose to his feet and, touching twice the palm of the right hand of Ibn Saran, took his leave. |
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| 1 | 497 |
I noted that Ibn Saran ate only with the right hand. |
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| 1 | 816 |
It was in this port that the warehouses of Ibn Saran, salt merchant, currently the guest of Samos of Port Kar, were to be found. |
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| 1 | 863 |
Ibn Saran, salt merchant of Kasra, did not rise from behind the table behind which, cross-legged, he sat. |
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| 1 | 867 |
"Either girl's use, or that of both, is yours, noble Ibn Saran," said Samos, "if you wish". |
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| 1 | 872 |
"Do I understand," asked Ibn Saran, "that your path leads you to the Tahari?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 1 | 873 |
"That direction, too, is mine," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 876 |
Ibn Saran rose to his feet, and brushed his hand against the right palm of Samos, twice, and against my right palm, twice. |
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| 1 | 908 |
"Are you not traveling with Ibn Saran?" asked Samos. |
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| 5 | 31 |
"I regret," said Ibn Saran, "that we could not travel together to Kasra, and then Tor". |
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| 5 | 33 |
"It was my loss," smiled Ibn Saran, lifting to his lips a tiny, steaming cup of black wine. |
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| 5 | 43 |
It was not lost on Suleiman, or Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 45 |
Ibn Saran, not taking his eyes from Alyena, lifted his finger. |
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| 5 | 53 |
Ibn Saran lifted another finger. |
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| 5 | 59 |
She then held the cup to the side of her cheek, testing its temperature; Ibn Saran glanced at her; she, looking at him, timidly kissed the side of the cup and placed it before him. |
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| 5 | 62 |
I wondered if she belonged to Suleiman or Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 216 |
* * * * Ibn Saran, watching the yellow-silked, collared slave dance, sipped his hot, black wine. |
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| 5 | 520 |
Recently, too, had Ibn Saran, with a caravan, arrived at the oasis. |
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| 5 | 526 |
I suspected that my being summoned to the presence of Suleiman was not unconnected with the arrival of Ibn Saran at the oasis. |
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| 5 | 543 |
But when Ibn Saran had arrived at the oasis, Suleiman had invited me to his presence. |
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| 5 | 544 |
I wondered if he had been waiting for Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 545 |
Ibn Saran, it seemed to me, exercised more influence at the Oasis of Nine Wells than one might have expected of a mere merchant of salt. |
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| 5 | 547 |
Alyena, in dancing, sensed the power of Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 556 |
Ibn Saran, languid, observed the dancer. |
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| 5 | 669 |
At a languid gesture from Ibn Saran, Alyena lifted herself from the scarlet tiles, gracefully turning from her side to her knees, and then, head back, hair to the floor, slowly, inch by melodic protesting inch, arms before her body, lifted herself to a kneeling position, erect, the last bit of her t... |
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| 5 | 670 |
Then, looking to Ibn Saran, suddenly she bent forward, as though impulsively, as though she could not help herself, and, hands on the tiles, head down, kissed the tiles at his feet, before his slippers. |
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| 5 | 676 |
"May I strip your slave?" inquired Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 709 |
Alyena, now, slowly, disengaged the dancing silk from her hips, yet held it, moving it on and about her body, by her hands, taunting the reclining, languid, heavy-lidded Ibn Saran, to whom she knew, at his slightest gesture, she must bare herself. |
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| 5 | 711 |
I, too, in my way, though doubtless less skillful than the noble Ibn Saran, was a connoisseur of slave girls. |
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| 5 | 741 |
At a signal from Ibn Saran, Alyena drew the veil about her body, and around it, and, with one small hand, threw it aside. |
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| 5 | 811 |
Then she stopped, marvelously, motionlessly, as the music was silent, her head back, her arms high, her body covered with sweat, and then, to the last swirl of the barbaric melody, fell to the floor at the feet of Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 814 |
Ibn Saran, magnanimously, gestured that she might rise, and she did so, standing before him, head high, breathing deeply. |
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| 5 | 815 |
Ibn Saran looked at me. |
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| 5 | 819 |
Ibn Saran gestured to Suleiman. |
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| 5 | 822 |
"And I," said Ibn Saran, "would not feel it gracious to bid against the host in whose house I find such welcome". |
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| 5 | 824 |
"Ah," said Ibn Saran, bowing. |
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| 5 | 834 |
Had it not been for Ibn Saran, I suspected I would not have been admitted even to the presence of the Pasha of Nine Wells. |
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| 5 | 841 |
I did not think either Ibn Saran or Suleiman heard it. |
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| 5 | 877 |
Ibn Saran drew forth his scimitar. |
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| 5 | 884 |
"Kavar spy!" cried Ibn Saran. |
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| 5 | 886 |
"Cut him down!" cried Ibn Saran, raising his scimitar. |
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| 6 | 11 |
"Cut him down!" had cried Ibn Saran, raising his scimitar. |
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| 6 | 14 |
Smiling, Ibn Saran had sheathed his weapon. |
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| 6 | 26 |
Ibn Saran, in silken kaftan, and kaffiyeh and agal, strode to the rack. |
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| 6 | 33 |
"Listen carefully, little Zaya," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 40 |
Ibn Saran smiled. |
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| 6 | 57 |
"Have you told the truth, pretty Zaya?" inquired Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 71 |
"Think now, my pretty," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 74 |
"Think carefully now, pretty Vella," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 78 |
Ibn Saran nodded to the judge. |
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| 6 | 82 |
"What is the truth, pretty Vella?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 85 |
"The truth," she said, "is as Ibn Saran says". |
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| 6 | 86 |
"Who struck noble Suleiman Pasha?" asked Ibn Saran, quietly. |
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| 6 | 93 |
"In the confusion," said Ibn Saran, "it was he, the accused, who struck Suleiman Pasha, and then went, with others, to the window". |
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| 6 | 95 |
"I saw it," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 111 |
"Was it he who struck Suleiman Pasha?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 116 |
"Look again carefully upon the accused," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 91 |
The judge, on the testimony of Ibn Saran, and that of two white-skinned, female slaves, one named Zaya, a red-haired girl, the other a dark-haired girl, whose name was Vella, had sentenced me as a criminal, a would-be assassin, to the secret brine pits of Klima, deep in the dune country, there to di... |
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| 7 | 152 |
Among them, imperious, I heard the voice of Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 156 |
Ibn Saran, himself, in black cloak, and white kaffiyeh with black cording, emerged through the threshold. |
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| 7 | 168 |
Ibn Saran smiled. |
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| 7 | 174 |
"I was warned of this," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 176 |
"Smell it?" said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 178 |
"Block the door!" said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 180 |
"Do not fear, my fellows," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 189 |
"Upon my signal," said Ibn Saran, speaking in swift Gorean, "attacking in a line, slash every inch of this room. |
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| 7 | 193 |
Ibn Saran, scimitar poised, smiled. |
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| 7 | 200 |
Ibn Saran stood in the threshold of the cell. |
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| 7 | 206 |
"It will be most dangerous," said Ibn Saran, "to enter the cell. |
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| 7 | 209 |
"It would tear the bars from the window and escape," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 212 |
I found it of interest that Ibn Saran did. |
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| 7 | 219 |
"I will first enter the cell," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 221 |
There seemed nothing soft or languid about Ibn Saran now. |
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| 7 | 224 |
I further decided that Ibn Saran was a brave man. |
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| 7 | 228 |
The door to the cell, however, by Ibn Saran, was. |
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| 7 | 230 |
"This is madness!" "It is gone," I told Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 231 |
Ibn Saran smiled. |
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| 7 | 243 |
Suddenly one of the men of Ibn Saran screamed horribly. |
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| 7 | 250 |
"Do not break your position," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 252 |
"Hold position!" said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 256 |
"Hold position!" cried Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 261 |
Ibn Saran himself, a brave man, blocked the open door to the cell. |
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| 7 | 263 |
"Ho!" Across the floor, now wet with blood, and blood-soaked straw, the men, in their line, Ibn Saran remaining at the door, charged. |
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| 7 | 269 |
In that moment, Ibn Saran, at the door, thrust out, wickedly, deeply. |
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| 7 | 271 |
"We have it!" cried Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 273 |
"There!" cried Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 276 |
"Attack at the blood!" cried Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 283 |
"To the window!" cried Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 289 |
But the ruse had drawn Ibn Saran from the door. |
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| 7 | 290 |
Ibn Saran spun from the wall, his blade battered, nicked and dull, from pounding on the stone. |
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| 7 | 294 |
* * * * "We have killed it," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 298 |
Once, by Ibn Saran, it had been wounded to a depth of some six inches. |
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| 7 | 301 |
"We have disposed of the body," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 313 |
Often I had to force from my mind the look on the face of the second slave, she called Vella, of triumph, as she, small and lovely, luscious, freed of the rack ropes, had sat up on the knotted ropes, after her testimony had confirmed that of others, of Zaya, the other girl, and Ibn Saran, sending me... |
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| 7 | 320 |
They would wait there, thusly secured, slaves, until the court had finished its business, after which they would be returned to the custody of their master, Ibn Saran, or his factors or agents. |
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| 7 | 324 |
With Ibn Saran were four men. |
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| 7 | 326 |
"Do you understand what it is," asked Ibn Saran, "to be sent to Klima—to be a salt slave?" "I think so," I told him. |
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| 7 | 363 |
"She has a very lively body, hasn't she?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 381 |
"Torture was not required," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 405 |
"But are these reports true," I asked, "or only, sincerely, believed to be true?" "They could, of course, be implanted memories," admitted Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 428 |
"The message collar," said Ibn Saran, "failed to bring about your death, the termination of your quest for the last egg of Priest-Kings". |
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| 7 | 441 |
"Completely," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 446 |
Ibn Saran nodded. |
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| 7 | 448 |
"So, too, did Zaya," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 450 |
"Neither needed urging," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 453 |
"Such make the best slaves," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 456 |
"She hates you," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 463 |
"A woman's vengeance is not a light thing," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 465 |
"But one thing troubled her," said Ibn Saran, "a matter in which, fearing for herself, she was apprehensive". |
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| 7 | 474 |
"Of course not," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 481 |
"She is an excellent little slave," said Ibn Saran, "and most pleasing on the cushions". |
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| 7 | 483 |
"Was she pleasing as a free woman?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 537 |
"Do you think," asked Ibn Saran, "that they can look at a woman and tell which are rightful, natural slaves?" "Some may wear their need for slavery more obviously than others," I said. |
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| 7 | 539 |
"I see," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 545 |
"Are you pleased with the women of Earth?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 551 |
"It is interesting to note how vital and hot Earth women are, once collared," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 556 |
"In any event," said Ibn Saran, "I think you would find your little Vella is now much changed. |
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| 7 | 571 |
What Ibn Saran had said was doubtless true. |
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| 7 | 577 |
"And so, too, are we," laughed Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 597 |
"Think of her writhing and crying out in my arms, she my slave, perhaps permitted that pleasure, responding obediently, helplessly, to me, her master, Ibn Saran, your victorious enemy". |
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| 7 | 612 |
"Think often of her," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 618 |
Ibn Saran smiled. |
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| 7 | 630 |
If I had been Ibn Saran I would not have taken this risk. |
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| 7 | 632 |
"Tal, noble Ibn Saran," said I, "and gracious Hamid, lieutenant to Shakar, captain of the Aretai". |
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| 7 | 633 |
In Ibn Saran's hand was his scimitar, unsheathed. |
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| 7 | 640 |
"You mistake us," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 645 |
"You are perceptive," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 648 |
Ibn Saran inclined his head. |
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| 7 | 653 |
"He was outside," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 660 |
"Precisely," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 666 |
"Precisely," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 670 |
"Someone will hear!" said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 675 |
"Open the collar," said Ibn Saran, angrily. |
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| 7 | 678 |
Ibn Saran's eyes flashed. |
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| 7 | 681 |
Ibn Saran inclined his head. |
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| 7 | 683 |
"The guard was bribed," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 702 |
"The scimitar, at the saddle," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 716 |
Be more careful," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 727 |
"What are you doing?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 733 |
Ibn Saran would not have cared to risk giving me an Ahn's start on a fast kaiila. |
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| 7 | 735 |
It suddenly occurred to me that perhaps Ibn Saran, as he proclaimed, was indeed an agent for Priest-Kings. |
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| 7 | 739 |
"May your water bags be never empty," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 746 |
"Ride north," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 7 | 748 |
As soon as I was out of earshot of Ibn Saran and Hamid, and among the walls of the oasis buildings, I reined in. |
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| 7 | 763 |
Two men rode by, Ibn Saran and Hamid. |
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| 11 | 429 |
Ibn Saran had told me the beast had been slain. |
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| 13 | 472 |
"I herewith," said Ibn Saran, "sentence you to the brine pits of Klima". |
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| 13 | 474 |
"Tafa, Riza," said Ibn Saran, to two of the girls, "strip". |
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| 13 | 476 |
"You will be taken below, to the dungeons," said Ibn Saran to us. |
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| 13 | 479 |
"Ibn Saran is generous," I said. |
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| 13 | 487 |
"Regard Tafa, Tarl Cabot," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 13 | 491 |
We were turned about and taken from the audience hall of the Guard of the Dunes, Abdul, the Salt Ubar, he who was Ibn Saran. |
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| 14 | 94 |
Tafa, no longer under the eye of her master, the feared Ibn Saran, had a slave girl's pride. |
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| 14 | 95 |
She was, after all, a lock-collar girl, who had been once free, who was beautiful, who had, at Two Scimitars, brought a high price, a price doubtless improved upon, if only slightly, by the agents of Ibn Saran, when they had bought her for their master. |
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| 14 | 176 |
"You rise early, noble Ibn Saran," said I. |
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| 14 | 208 |
Ibn Saran had turned his kaiila toward Hassan. |
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| 14 | 212 |
It had puzzled me that Ibn Saran had spoken thusly to Hassan, a bandit. |
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| 14 | 213 |
Then Ibn Saran turned his kaiila again, and prepared to depart the chain. |
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| 14 | 214 |
"Ibn Saran," I said. |
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| 14 | 239 |
"Many men will die," cried Hassan, "both Kavars and Aretai, and of the vassal tribes! It must be stopped! They must be warned!" "It is necessary," said Ibn Saran to him. |
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| 14 | 244 |
"One gains a victory," said Ibn Saran, "but one loses an enemy". |
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| 14 | 291 |
"She is the girl-property of Ibn Saran". |
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| 14 | 354 |
"I thought she stood high with Ibn Saran," I said. |
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| 14 | 356 |
"Perhaps she will attempt to undermine the slave master with Ibn Saran," I said, "in the wheedlings of the couch. |
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| 14 | 358 |
"Ibn Saran is no fool," he said. |
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| 14 | 361 |
"It is Ibn Saran," he said, "who has put her in the keeping of the slave master, and has instructed him to leave her in no doubt that she is naught but a slave". |
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| 14 | 382 |
Too, had not Ibn Saran said that she had her own quarters? More common slaves, but slaves higher than those kept in the lower depths of the kasbah, are usually kept in the general slave quarters, and are often entered into their alcoves, which are reached through the walls of the slave quarters. |
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| 14 | 395 |
Even a high slave, like Ibn Saran's Vella, would not own the silks with which she might be commanded to adorn herself. |
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| 14 | 402 |
What she had failed to do at Nine Wells, her master, Ibn Saran, silken, pantherlike and lithe, had well accomplished. |
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| 14 | 410 |
Perhaps she might hope that Ibn Saran might recollect her in the evening, and summon her to his cushions. |
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| 19 | 88 |
Furthermore, between Klima and Red Rock lay the regions patrolled by the men of Abdul, the Salt Ubar, who had been known to me as Ibn Saran. |
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| 20 | 114 |
It was surprised by Ibn Saran and his men. |
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| 20 | 117 |
Ibn Saran told me the beast had been killed. |
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| 21 | 302 |
Even Ibn Saran, with all his brilliance, did not, I supposed, conjecture his role as dupe in this plan, precipitating tribal warfare, thus effectively, for almost all practical purposes, closing the desert to intruders, strangers, agents either of Priest-Kings or even of alternative Kur parties. |
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| 22 | 8 |
As I had surmised, there was contact between the ship and the nearest agents of Kurii, the men of Abdul, Ibn Saran, the Salt Ubar. |
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| 22 | 66 |
They were truly agents of Kurii, minions of Ibn Saran, Abdul, the Salt Ubar. |
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| 24 | 2 |
That Ibn Saran met us at all, with the twenty-five hundred mercenaries he could muster does him much credit. |
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| 24 | 7 |
There was hard fighting, however, in the vicinity of Ibn Saran's own men, those of the Salt Ubar and his allies, those who had fought with Tarna. |
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| 24 | 8 |
I came once within one hundred and fifty yards of Ibn Saran; Hassan, or Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, came within twenty yards of him, fighting like a wild animal, but was turned back at last by a wall of bucklers, a hedge of lances. |
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| 24 | 10 |
I did see her men, but they fought under Ibn Saran. |
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| 24 | 12 |
Late in the afternoon, Ibn Saran, with four hundred riders, broke through our lines and fled northwest. |
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| 24 | 22 |
"Ibn Saran," I said, "may slip through your fingers". |
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| 24 | 72 |
I had little doubt that she would be much envied by the other girls, being apparently the favorite of the kasbah's master, the noble Ibn Saran. |
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| 24 | 85 |
I wondered if she entertained Ibn Saran, upon occasion, on the broad, lovely surface. |
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| 24 | 92 |
Ibn Saran was the sort of man to whom a woman could do little other than crawl. |
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| 24 | 99 |
Emptied of information she had been brought by Ibn Saran to the Tahari. |
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| 24 | 154 |
I had found it in the kitchens of Ibn Saran. |
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| 24 | 270 |
But I had gathered from Ibn Saran that Vella, with perhaps a minimum of handling, could be made to writhe obediently, helplessly, whatever might be her personal feelings, will or desires in the matter. |
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| 24 | 279 |
"I identified you for Ibn Saran," she said. |
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| 24 | 389 |
I suspected that, following the defeat in the desert, the discipline amongst the men of Ibn Saran may have lessened somewhat. |
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| 24 | 508 |
"Ibn Saran," she said, "the master of the very kasbah itself, the Salt Ubar, the Guard of the Dunes, is my master!" "No," I said. |
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| 24 | 524 |
Ibn Saran, as I recalled, had informed me that Vella had changed, that she had, I gathered, come to some deeper understanding of her needs, her desires, herself. |
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| 24 | 526 |
Indeed, my judicious, relentless tormenting of her, the cruelty of my questioning, had done much to confirm not only the words of Ibn Saran, but my own conjectures. |
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| 24 | 529 |
But from Ibn Saran I had learned she had, her brittle defenses overridden and crushed, learned that, instead, on Earth, she had been a slave who, merely, had not yet been placed in bondage. |
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| 24 | 550 |
"My master, Ibn Saran, will not be pleased," she said. |
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| 24 | 551 |
"Ibn Saran is not your master," I said. |
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| 24 | 582 |
"Ibn Saran does not wish his men to slip away, into the desert," I said, "so it may behoove him to be more generous with choice cutlets of the kasbah's best slave meat". |
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| 24 | 621 |
Its occupants were doubtless in service elsewhere in the kasbah, hoping now to please ruder men than Ibn Saran and his high officers. |
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| 25 | 1 |
The Second Kasbah Falls; What Was Done to Tarna "Where is Ibn Saran!" demanded Haroun, in the flowing white of the high Pasha of the Kavars. |
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| 25 | 14 |
Ibn Saran was clearly not among them. |
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| 25 | 16 |
Ibn Saran was not among them either. |
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| 25 | 17 |
Ibn Saran was not the only man missing. |
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| 25 | 18 |
I did not detect, among the prisoners or the fallen, the small Abdul, the water carrier and henchman of the great Abdul, Ibn Saran, the Salt Ubar, nor Hamid, traitor to the Aretai, who had struck Suleiman Pasha. |
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| 25 | 20 |
"Let us assume, Pasha," said I to Hassan, "that Ibn Saran entered this kasbah". |
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| 25 | 23 |
"These seem reasonable assumptions," said Haroun, "but how is it possible they can all be true and yet Ibn Saran neither fallen nor in chains?" "There is another kasbah nearby, that of his confederate, Tarna," I said. |
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| 25 | 30 |
"Ibn Saran," said a man, "is doubtless in the kasbah of Tarna". |
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| 25 | 32 |
"Thus," cried another, "Ibn Saran has slipped through our lines. |
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| 25 | 58 |
* * * * It was on the height of the highest tower of the kasbah of Tarna that Hassan, I close behind him, cornered Ibn Saran. |
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| 25 | 59 |
"Comrades!" said Ibn Saran. |
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| 25 | 66 |
"You fight well," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 25 | 70 |
"Yes," said Ibn Saran, "that was years ago". |
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| 25 | 71 |
Ibn Saran lifted his scimitar to me in salute. |
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| 25 | 74 |
Ibn Saran inclined his head to me, in Taharic courtesy. |
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| 25 | 133 |
"There were none there but Aretai, Ibn Saran, Hakim of Tor and—" Shakar stopped. |
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| 25 | 195 |
"Ibn Saran is dead. |
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| 26 | 14 |
The sun was now striking the east wall of what had been the kasbah of Abdul, Ibn Saran, who had been the Salt Ubar. |
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| 26 | 33 |
The sun was now full on the east wall of what had been the kasbah of Abdul, Ibn Saran, the Salt Ubar. |
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| 26 | 62 |
I recalled her from the dungeon in what had been the kasbah of Ibn Saran, the morning before I had begun the march to Klima. |
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| 26 | 106 |
"That one," he had said, sitting in court, in the audience chamber of what had been the kasbah of Ibn Saran, indicating the silken fellow who had worn the ruby necklace, who had tried to betray us to the guards of Tarna, "that one sell in Tor—sell him to a woman". |
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| 26 | 168 |
It was no longer that of Ibn Saran; it wore the name of Hakim of Tor. |
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| 26 | 171 |
The garment she wore was incredibly brief, a rag; it was of brown rep-cloth, stained with grease and dirt; I had found it in the kitchens of Ibn Saran; it had been used in the cleaning of pans; I had ripped it at the neck; I had torn it, lengthily, on the left side, to reveal the marvelous curve fro... |
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| 26 | 211 |
Haroun, sitting in court, in what had been the audience room of the kasbah of Ibn Saran, had invited T'Zshal, and his lances, to join his service. |
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| 26 | 222 |
Some two hundred yards from the head of the column, I passed the small Abdul, who had been a water carrier in Tor, and an agent of Ibn Saran. |
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| 26 | 223 |
It was not impossible, through his work with Ibn Saran, that he knew matters of importance pertaining to the wars of Priest-Kings and Kurii. |
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| 26 | 238 |
In what had been the kasbah of Ibn Saran she had been thrown naked to the foot of the dais on which, cross-legged, sat the great Haroun himself. |
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| 26 | 330 |
"I am pleased I identified you for Ibn Saran," she said. |
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| 26 | 333 |
"You are not to be punished because you identified me for Ibn Saran," I said, "nor because you testified against me at Nine Wells". |
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| 26 | 335 |
"Were you not commanded by your Master, Ibn Saran, to so testify?" I said. |
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| 26 | 365 |
I'm pleased that I identified you for Ibn Saran. |
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| 26 | 372 |
"I wanted you sent to Klima! I wanted you sent there! Vengeance was sweet! Only you escaped! Of course I mocked you from the window of the kasbah of Ibn Saran! There would be no women at Klima! Of course in insolence I hurled you a bit of perfumed silk, to torment you in the march and, later, at Kli... |
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| 26 | 448 |
I had had that of Ibn Saran removed. |
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| 26 | 490 |
It was no secret in the kasbah that lovely Vella, whom I had found displeasing, had been the favorite of Ibn Saran, that she had been a high slave, that she had been pampered and privileged, that she had been given the luxury of private quarters, and special jewelries and silks, that she had disdain... |
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| 26 | 604 |
"You well served Ibn Saran," I said, "but you may recall that it was I who had you first as a slave, in a tavern in Lydius, and now I have you again". |
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| 26 | 873 |
Her throat was bare, for I had had, the preceding night, the collar of Ibn Saran removed from her throat. |
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| 26 | 1001 |
"I gathered from Ibn Saran," I said, "that you are pleasant on the cushions". |
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| 26 | 1019 |
"Ibn Saran used to use a long leash," she said. |
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| 26 | 1026 |
"Ibn Saran, I speculate," I said, "was such a man". |
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| 26 | 1177 |
"Was not Ibn Saran at that time in the house of Samos?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 26 | 1179 |
"Perhaps he who sent the message assumed that the information of the agents of Priest-Kings was sufficient to identify Ibn Saran with Abdul, the Salt Ubar, or, at least, to link him with that villain". |
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| 26 | 1189 |
He must have been captured by men of Ibn Saran. |
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| 26 | 1196 |
I would not forget Ibn Saran, lithe, like a silken panther. |
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| 26 | 1231 |
I saw the two kasbahs, which had been those of Abdul, Ibn Saran, the Salt Ubar, Guard of the Dunes, and Tarna, once a proud desert chieftainess. |
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| 26 | 1269 |
I looked back at the kasbahs which had been those of Abdul, Ibn Saran, the Salt Ubar, Guard of the Dunes, and Tarna, once a proud desert chieftainess. |
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| 26 | 1278 |
I had picked her up, and claimed her for my own, in what had been the kasbah of Abdul, Ibn Saran, who had been Salt Ubar in the Tahari, the Guard of the Dunes. |
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| 26 | 1279 |
It was said she had been a high slave, even the preferred slave of Ibn Saran. |
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