| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 806 |
That means nothing to me now! And let me show dear Selius Arconious what he shall not own! I hate him, the arrogant Gorean tarsk! Hurt him! Hurt Selius Arconious! Let him see what he cannot afford! I hate you, Selius Arconious! Grind your teeth, clench your fists, sweat, moan, tear your clothing, bu... |
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| 28 | 136 |
"If you will not use me," she said, angrily, "sell me to one who will! Sell me to one who is a man!" He turned then angrily, suddenly, to the slave but, at the same moment, there was a great roar splitting the silence of the camp and a dark, monstrous, violent shape leapt into the camp and Fel Doron... |
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| 27 | 597 |
Might he not pity her, if only eventually, a former woman of his world, now a slave, helpless in her collar, as it might not occur to a Gorean to do? And did she not fear Selius Arconious whom she was sure would not be slow with the whip, should she prove in the least displeasing? And did she not ha... |
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| 18 | 503 |
At least I do not belong to Selius Arconious, that supercilious, handsome, vain, arrogant beast! How I detest Selius Arconious! And yet if he were to buy me, I would be his slave, and would have to render him perfections of service. |
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| 24 | 656 |
"Suffer," she thought, "Masters!" Mirus followed her dancing, and looked carefully upon Selius Arconious, and Selius Arconious, when she danced to Mirus, had little difficulty in detecting the object of the slave's provocative, haughty glances. |
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| 18 | 1 |
Intrigue "Ellen," said Selius Arconious, chewing on a straw, leaning against the jamb of the great portal, leading to the platform outside, "remove your tunic, to the floor, slave paces". |
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| 18 | 16 |
Selius Arconious was an assistant to the tarnmaster. |
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| 18 | 61 |
"Ho!" said Portus Canio, turning and glaring at young Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 62 |
"Are there not harnesses to repair?" "To be sure, Portus," grinned Selius. |
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| 18 | 63 |
"You do not earn your copper tarsks by amusing yourself with slave girls!" Selius grinned. |
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| 18 | 65 |
Ellen, lifting the basket of meat, smiled at the discomfort of young Selius. |
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| 18 | 70 |
"It matters not," said Selius. |
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| 18 | 73 |
Selius shrugged. |
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| 18 | 75 |
Selius laughed. |
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| 18 | 78 |
Selius Arconious, as we recall, at the time of his accosting a young slave, had been in the vicinity of the great portal, that leading outward to the long, curving platform, outside, ledgelike, about the cylinder or tower, with its several perches. |
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| 18 | 192 |
She wanted to hurry back to Portus, or Selius, or one of the others, and beg use. |
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| 18 | 231 |
He had then made her stand, and walk about, and turn, and display herself in the tunic to himself and his three men, these being Fel Doron, Tersius Major and Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 236 |
"I like her better without it," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 268 |
Portus Canio had left but Selius Arconious was still standing in the vicinity of the great portal. |
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| 18 | 288 |
Selius Arconious was regarding it, too. |
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| 18 | 318 |
"I trust that my Master, the noble Portus Canio, your employer," said Ellen to Selius Arconious, "does not inquire of me as to your behavior, and if you have been attentive to your duties, for I, as a slave, however reluctantly, knelt down to speak the truth, would have to admit that you have been l... |
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| 18 | 319 |
Selius picked up a loop of harness and held it in his hands. |
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| 18 | 327 |
She then turned away, but, after a step, stopped, looked back over her shoulder and smiled, slyly, and then, saucily, suddenly, bid Selius farewell with a toss, beneath her brief, thin tunic, of her small, well-outlined derrière. |
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| 18 | 334 |
Let him stew, and cry out, and suffer! He cannot have me! I am not for such lowly sorts! Suffer, Selius Arconious, suffer! You cannot have me!" In the barred feeding area, the gate shut against the housing for returning tarns, Ellen put the basket of meat on the floor, and, moving about, and climbin... |
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| 18 | 343 |
While Ellen climbed and placed the meat, she wondered what it would be like, to be owned by Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 366 |
She recalled with satisfaction, with pleasure, how she had tormented Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 505 |
How I hate him, that young, handsome, vain beast, Selius Arconious, he thinking he is so good-looking, so clever and mighty! How I hold him in contempt, how I detest him! And yet it is hard for me to remain standing before him! I grow weak! He makes me feel helpless! His nearness makes me feel faint... |
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| 18 | 561 |
At the tower, as chance would have it, though she wondered if he were waiting for her, it was Selius Arconious who opened the interior door to admit her. |
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| 18 | 564 |
Selius Arconious took her casually, masterfully, possessively, in his arms, and she turned her head to the side, trying to turn away from him. |
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| 18 | 572 |
Selius Arconious thrust Ellen from him, and stepped back. |
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| 18 | 578 |
"I was hungry," said Selius Arconious, "for a snack of slave". |
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| 18 | 587 |
"It was my fault," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 593 |
When Ellen looked up, she found herself kneeling before Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 596 |
"Split your knees, more widely," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 599 |
"I must hasten to my master!" Selius indicated that she might rise, and she scrambled, angrily, to her feet. |
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| 18 | 620 |
Let it burn—fiercely! Suffer, thinking of me! I know that you desire me, and mightily, but know that I detest you, and that you cannot have me! You will never have me! I am not yours! I belong to another!" "You can probably not even dance nude," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 624 |
After supper, while Ellen was busying herself, cleaning up, attending to the dishes, and such, she thought of Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 665 |
Ellen angrily took from the heap of clothing to her right a tunic of Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 777 |
As Ellen attended rather irritably to the tunic of Selius Arconious she realized, with a bit of a start, that she and the other girl, her new friend, Corinne, had been conversing in Gorean, naturally, and without thought. |
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| 18 | 780 |
Ellen angrily soaked, and kneaded, and soaked and kneaded, the tunic of Selius Arconious. |
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| 18 | 782 |
"There, Selius Arconious!" she thought. |
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| 18 | 787 |
I would like to rip the garment of the brute, Selius Arconious, to pieces, but if I so much as break a thread I may be punished. |
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| 18 | 792 |
But she resolved to be, when her master was not present, even more provocative before Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 6 |
"What are you talking about?" asked Selius Arconious, looking up from the repair of a saddle. |
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| 19 | 7 |
"Is your Home Stone the Home Stone of Ar?" inquired Portus, suddenly, fiercely, of Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 8 |
"Of course," said Selius Arconious, puzzled. |
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| 19 | 16 |
They seek the Delta Brigade!" "There is no such thing," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 39 |
"Talena will address the population from the Central Cylinder," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 42 |
"Our Ubara," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 45 |
"Guardsmen, on the bridges! They may be coming here!" "Why?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 69 |
"The rest of you," said the officer, indicating Fel Doron, Tersius Major and Selius Arconious, "kneel. |
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| 19 | 71 |
Fel Doron, Tersius Major, and, lastly, angrily, Selius Arconious, knelt. |
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| 19 | 98 |
"Slut," hissed Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 107 |
"Slut, slut!" chided Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 151 |
"She is a poor piece of barbarian slave meat," said Selius Arconious, from his knees. |
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| 19 | 163 |
"I have seen toads who are more attractive," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 164 |
How hateful you are, Selius Arconious, she thought. |
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| 19 | 166 |
Take that, Selius Arconious, she thought. |
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| 19 | 167 |
"She is plain," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 173 |
"She is quite homely," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 176 |
There, Selius Arconious, she thought. |
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| 19 | 177 |
"Surely you cannot find her of the least interest," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 180 |
"She is nothing," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 184 |
"Absurd," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 189 |
"No!" cried Selius Arconious, who would have sprung to his feet, save that the butt of a spear, pressing down on his shoulder, kept him in place. |
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| 19 | 213 |
"No!" cried Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 234 |
Burn, she thought, Selius Arconious, burn! You will never have me! Suffer! Suffer! Burn! Burn! She saw he looked upon her with fury. |
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| 19 | 260 |
"What is going on?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 261 |
"Selius," said Portus, "attend to the slave. |
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| 19 | 263 |
"Very well," said Selius, puzzled. |
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| 19 | 265 |
"I will do so," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 266 |
When Ellen looked up, from her knees, she saw, in the half darkness, Selius Arconious looming over her. |
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| 19 | 351 |
In what might have been some half of an Ahn, or so, the door to the ice pantry, or ice room, opened and there stood therein, silhouetted in the light behind it, the figure of Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 369 |
Remember that you begged to serve Selius Arconious, of Ar, begged piteously, and helplessly, to serve him, as a hot slave". |
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| 19 | 379 |
"The slave has been fed and watered, as you wished, Portus," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 393 |
"Assist Selius," said Portus, looking about, as though he feared to hear at any moment the cries of men and the rushing of footsteps on the stairs, the rude, insistent smiting of spears against the inner door. |
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| 19 | 405 |
"Seven tarns are ready harnessed for cargo," said Selius Arconious, emerging from the tarn cage, and two others are haltered, ready for tandem, trailing flight. |
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| 19 | 417 |
"Such could never have occurred," said Selius Arconious, bitterly, "had Marlenus, our Ubar, he, the Ubar of Ubars, been in the city". |
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| 19 | 476 |
"You are brave fools," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 486 |
These two tarns were left in the care of Selius Arconious, who had chosen to remain behind. |
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| 19 | 490 |
Selius Arconious, of course, a lowly employee, could not be expected to be of much help in such matters. |
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| 19 | 500 |
Might that not be a disguise for roving tarnsmen, who might then jettison the baskets and wing their way free to whatever mischief they might portend? "Untie the slave," Portus called to Selius, "and put her in the last basket". |
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| 19 | 501 |
Selius turned Ellen to her belly and bent to free her of her several-times-looped, narrow pinions. |
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| 19 | 508 |
She turned, as she could, lifting her head, rising a bit on the palms of her hands, to view her master, her body still pinned in place by Selius, who was kneeling across the back of her legs. |
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| 19 | 519 |
Selius picked her up and put her on his left shoulder, her head to the rear. |
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| 19 | 521 |
"When Portus addressed you," said Selius Arconious, "you merely shook your head in understanding, and affirmation". |
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| 19 | 523 |
"Surely you know gag signals, slut," said Selius. |
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| 19 | 525 |
"Would you like to be thrown from the platform?" asked Selius. |
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| 19 | 527 |
"Good," said Selius. |
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| 19 | 542 |
She stood there, looking at Selius Arconious, she within the basket, he standing on the floor beside it, the small, folded tunic between her teeth. |
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| 19 | 554 |
"The cargo is stowed," Selius called to Portus. |
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| 19 | 558 |
"Selius!" called Portus. |
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| 19 | 559 |
Selius turned his contemptuous gaze from the distraught, rejected, tearful slave. |
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| 19 | 562 |
"Did you learn the origin of the disturbance in the city, the cause of such shouting, of such commotion, in the streets?" "Yes," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 573 |
She held out one hand to Selius Arconious piteously, sliding away from him. |
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| 19 | 636 |
On this world there are men such as Portus Canio and Selius Arconious! I am a woman. |
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| 19 | 664 |
According to the report of Selius Arconious the explanation of the unrest had to do with the alleged disappearance of Talena, the very Ubara of Ar, from the palace. |
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| 19 | 713 |
Too, she had been fed, in a manner of speaking, earlier by the brutish, impatient, handsome Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 779 |
You may reject me, Selius Arconious, she said, bitterly, but others will not. |
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| 19 | 782 |
Yes, a beautiful slave! See me on a market block, Selius Arconious. |
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| 19 | 783 |
See me perform! Then you will cry out with rage, with misery, with need, seeing what you have lost! "You have lost a prize, Selius Arconious," she cried, to the indifferent emptiness of the dark countryside. |
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| 20 | 942 |
Obviously the slave marshal regarded her as acceptable collar meat, perhaps even excellent collar meat! There, take that, again, Selius Arconious, she thought. |
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| 24 | 623 |
Then suddenly it seemed she knew who was strongest for, to her astonishment, she now saw, toward the back of the silk, only a few feet from Mirus, to his left, Selius Arconious! He, though impecunious, though a simple workman, no more than an ordinary tarnster, was a Gorean master. |
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| 24 | 628 |
"I cannot let him see me in this way! Not in this way!" She stopped dancing for a moment, confused, but tried not to look at Selius Arconious, lest their eyes meet. |
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| 24 | 639 |
"What are you doing here, Selius Arconious," she wondered. |
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| 24 | 651 |
Then, with a toss of her head, and a whirl of her hair, she danced toward Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 653 |
"I will show you, proud, handsome master, what you cannot afford!" Then, she moved from Selius Arconious to Mirus again, dancing in the sand, regarding him steadily. |
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| 24 | 671 |
Do not regard Master Mirus or Master Selius! You are a slave girl and can be whipped in an instant. |
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| 24 | 683 |
You are only acting a part, aren't you? Please, my body, do not reveal your needs! No! I fear that I am becoming aroused! I must not let this show, certainly not before Masters Mirus and Selius. |
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| 24 | 694 |
What did the men mind? The face of Selius Arconious was impassive. |
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| 24 | 707 |
She dared to lift her head a little, but she saw neither Mirus nor Selius Arconious within the enclosure. |
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| 24 | 803 |
"I am called 'Selius'," said the voice. |
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| 24 | 806 |
It was Selius Arconious! "Perhaps you are right," said the scribe. |
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| 24 | 814 |
"True," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 823 |
"But she did mislead you," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 825 |
"Then she is stupid," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 828 |
"Apparently," said Selius Arconious, "those of Cos are indulgent with their slaves". |
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| 24 | 830 |
"Too, intentionally or not," said Selius Arconious, "she has made a fool out of you, and of Cos". |
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| 24 | 832 |
"Were you given permission to speak?" inquired Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 834 |
"Forgive me, Master!" "You see how stupid she is," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 836 |
"I did not know that Cos accepted stupidity in her slaves," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 842 |
"I would think fifteen lashes," said Selius. |
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| 24 | 844 |
"Ten for the stupidity of imperiling the integrity of your records," said Selius Arconious, "and another five for the stupidity of daring to speak without permission". |
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| 24 | 849 |
Selius Arconious had interposed himself, and his hand rested on the arm of the guardsman, staying its blow. |
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| 24 | 851 |
"I will buy the strokes," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 855 |
"Done," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 862 |
"How cleverly Selius Arconious demeans me! He knows I hate him, that I cannot stand him, that I loathe him! Now he whom I intensely despise chooses to interfere! From where has he come? Why is he here? By what right does he interpose himself betwixt a slave and an agent of her master, the state of C... |
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| 24 | 864 |
Ellen, who well understood her condition, needed not be reprimanded or kicked, nor required a suggestion, or command, to be repeated, but squirmed immediately, prostrate, on her belly, to Selius Arconious, and, putting down her head, her hair falling about his sandals, kissed his feet. |
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| 24 | 866 |
"Your gratitude may be premature, my dear," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 868 |
Selius Arconious stepped back, away from her. |
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| 24 | 872 |
She was obeying, and kneeling, a naked slave, in the presence of Selius Arconious, whom she hated. |
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| 24 | 875 |
She looked at Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 883 |
"She is a slut, meaningless and stupid," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 24 | 888 |
Ellen, turning about, cast an angry glance at Selius Arconious, who regarded her impassively. |
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| 25 | 63 |
"Oh, please, masters, let me out!" Selius Arconious, she recalled, had suggested that she be confined "straitly," and the scribe, to whom he had given some fifteen tarsk-bits, buying her blows, had found this not only agreeable, but, given his earlier rancor, eminently fitting. |
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| 25 | 96 |
"Selius Arconious has done this to me," she had said to herself. |
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| 25 | 217 |
Ellen was then angry with Selius Arconious. |
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| 25 | 549 |
I hate Selius Arconious, she thought. |
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| 25 | 797 |
I wonder if Mirus and Selius Arconious are among the men, she thought. |
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| 25 | 803 |
I wonder if dear Mirus and dear Selius Arconious, the arrogant, imperious pigs, are here. |
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| 25 | 807 |
I hate you, Selius Arconious, she said, to herself. |
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| 25 | 808 |
I hate you, I hate you! But neither, she supposed, neither Mirus or Selius Arconious, were here. |
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| 25 | 812 |
And she need not concern herself at all with Selius Arconious, a lowly tarnster. |
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| 25 | 964 |
I trust, she thought wildly, that neither Mirus nor Selius Arconious are among the buyers. |
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| 25 | 1176 |
She had been sold! She now belonged, in the full meaningfulness of Gorean servitude, to her new master, Selius Arconious! The auctioneer's assistant half dragged her to the stairs, and there handed her down, into the arms of another assistant. |
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| 25 | 1180 |
Not to him! To anyone but him! He hates me! I hate him! I hate him! Oh, Ellen, miserable slave! He has bought you! He owns you! You belong to him! You belong to Selius Arconious! It is his collar that you must wear! She put her face in her hands, weeping. |
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| 26 | 18 |
Selius Arconious, it seemed, for whatever reason, as was the case, it seemed, with a number of other masters, as well, was in no hurry to claim his slave. |
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| 26 | 59 |
Too, she did not know if Selius Arconious was in the vicinity. |
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| 26 | 63 |
She excused herself on this count, with the recognition that Selius Arconious was the sort of man before whom women naturally felt an impulse to kneel, and spread-kneed. |
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| 26 | 72 |
It was not the voice of Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 102 |
It was the voice of Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 117 |
Beware of Tersius Major! Portus Canio and Fel Doron are even now awaiting transportation to Cos or Tyros, perhaps to the quarries!" "Do not concern yourself about such things, slave girl," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 119 |
"I attempted to dissuade them," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 122 |
"Curiosity is not becoming in a kajira," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 124 |
"An impulse to travel," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 160 |
"I think you will soon know," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 163 |
"It will not be wise to remain long in the camp," said Selius Arconious, "but, unfortunately, there is no help for it. |
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| 26 | 174 |
"Before a woman is sold, it is common to starve her of sex," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 206 |
"Ellen, the slave, your slave, Master, begs to be caressed by her master, Selius Arconious, of Ar," said Ellen. |
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| 26 | 207 |
"Do women of your world often beg to be caressed?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 237 |
I hate Selius Arconious! I hate him! I hate him! Then she cried aloud, in the hood, "Oh, please, Master, have mercy on me! Come back! Hold me! Touch me! Help me! I will obey well! I will be a good slave! Fulfill me! Give me my slave's release! I beg it! I am your slave! Be kind to your slave! Be rut... |
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| 26 | 238 |
I hate Selius Arconious, she thought. |
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| 26 | 281 |
But we must remember that the feelings of Selius Arconious toward his recent purchase were rather ambivalent. |
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| 26 | 378 |
* * * * Surely, she thought, Selius Arconious knows something of these things! And he paid five pieces of gold, of gold, for me! Perhaps he had a hundred, and they were no more than tarsk-bits to him! What then does that make me worth? Must I not now reassess myself? Am I not again no more than a ch... |
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| 26 | 501 |
"It says," said he, "'I am the property of Selius Arconious, of Ar. |
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| 26 | 581 |
She wondered if Selius Arconious, whom she supposed still held her leash, was disguised, or wore about his features the hoodlike folds of a cloak. |
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| 26 | 601 |
Yes, Selius Arconious could have done much with his gold, she thought. |
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| 26 | 631 |
"Have you secured the guards?" she heard Selius Arconious ask. |
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| 26 | 637 |
Too, though she hated Selius Arconious, she was sure, it nonetheless pleased her to kneel thusly before him. |
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| 26 | 640 |
Perhaps it was Selius Arconious, her master. |
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| 26 | 652 |
Selius Arconious was to one side, placing the hood in a pack. |
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| 26 | 664 |
"I know," smiled Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 676 |
"He will be clad as Selius Arconious, gagged, tied in the saddle of a tarn and set aflight". |
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| 26 | 681 |
"Are the wagons ready?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 686 |
"Is it true," asked Selius Arconious, of the red-haired man, "that Marlenus has been found near Ar?" "It seems so," said the red-haired man. |
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| 26 | 721 |
Ellen, from her knees, looked up to Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 748 |
"What?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 751 |
"Yes?" said Selius Arconious, warily. |
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| 26 | 753 |
"You see then," said Selius Arconious, "that you no longer have any claim to her". |
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| 26 | 757 |
"Very well," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 765 |
"How much?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 768 |
"Twenty," said Selius. |
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| 26 | 770 |
"But that is my own money!" protested Selius. |
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| 26 | 774 |
Slowly, as Ellen watched, delighted, Selius Arconious, angrily, reluctantly, removing them one by one from his purse, placed twenty-one silver tarsks, of Ar, in the hands of Portus Canio. |
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| 26 | 778 |
When she raised her head, Selius Arconious was looking down at her, in fury. |
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| 26 | 783 |
"Gloat now, little she-sleen," said Selius Arconious, angrily, "but do not forget that it is in my bracelets that your wrists are locked". |
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| 26 | 788 |
"I do not understand," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 791 |
One of the other men about slapped Selius Arconious good-naturedly on the back. |
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| 26 | 793 |
Selius Arconious, reddening, replaced the silver in his purse. |
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| 26 | 797 |
"Alas," said Selius Arconious, "there is no smaller coin". |
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| 26 | 798 |
Ellen looked angrily, from her knees, she back-braceleted, from Portus Canio to Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 800 |
And quickly, frightened, Ellen put down her head and began to lick and kiss the sandals of Selius Arconious, once again a slave, once again reminded of the absoluteness of her bondage. |
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| 26 | 835 |
"Have arrangements been made for me?" asked Selius. |
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| 26 | 840 |
"Can one trust one of Port Kar?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 843 |
"I did not know," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 857 |
"How many of our men are in the camp?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 860 |
"May I speak, Master," whispered Ellen, softly, looking up to Selius Arconious. |
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| 26 | 867 |
"He is a fool," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 903 |
"To them, and please them," said Selius Arconious, "with your kisses, and lips, and tongue and mouth. |
10 |
| 26 | 906 |
"You cannot be serious!" "They are doubtless good fellows," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 925 |
She was frightened, but she was even more frightened of her master, Selius Arconious, whom she now understood was not to be trifled with. |
10 |
| 26 | 1024 |
It identified her as the property of a Gorean, Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1035 |
Selius Arconious was there, and Portus Canio, and Fel Doron, and others, including the red-haired man, he so much like a larl, claimedly from Port Kar, it seemed of the Warriors, and his fellow, the dark-haired, lithe man, said to be of Ar's Station, also it seemed of the Warriors, which was somewhe... |
10 |
| 26 | 1037 |
She knelt beside Selius Arconious, knees wide, her head down. |
10 |
| 26 | 1048 |
"I wonder if they will catch him," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1051 |
Selius Arconious took a blanket and threw it about Ellen's shoulders. |
10 |
| 26 | 1058 |
Perhaps I will be able to dominate him? Then she fearfully put aside that thought, for she knew she would never be able to dominate Selius Arconious, or any Gorean male. |
10 |
| 26 | 1073 |
"They did not recognize you," said Portus Canio to Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1074 |
"They are not looking for me here," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1088 |
She moved toward Selius Arconious, on her knees, facing him, and lifted her chin. |
10 |
| 26 | 1089 |
"What is wrong?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1098 |
"You are afraid you will not be taken with us?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1100 |
Selius Arconious reached to the blanket and drew it completely over Ellen. |
10 |
| 26 | 1111 |
I hate Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1135 |
He is Selius Arconious, my master! How strange she then thought that I, of Earth, should be here, on another world, a far, beautiful world, one many of Earth do not even know exists, kneeling on its grass, naked, back-braceleted, covered with a blanket, dismissed from attention, unable to see, waiti... |
10 |
| 26 | 1370 |
Too, Selius Arconious had been willing to pay twenty-one silver tarsks for her. |
10 |
| 26 | 1386 |
"Well," said Selius Arconious, "I think that I shall seek some rest". |
10 |
| 26 | 1396 |
"On your feet," said Selius Arconious, and, from the tone of his voice, Ellen, even though beneath the blanket, had no doubt he was addressing her. |
10 |
| 26 | 1484 |
"There!" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1494 |
"He knows nothing of us," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 26 | 1625 |
A wave of hatred for the brute, Selius Arconious, swept over her. |
10 |
| 26 | 1741 |
She did not think that Selius Arconious slept then. |
10 |
| 27 | 5 |
Initially there had been a tarn pursuit of the trussed, gagged Tersius Major, he tied upright in a tarn saddle, clad as had been Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 6 |
Accordingly the Cosian search for Selius Arconious had been at least temporarily abandoned. |
10 |
| 27 | 16 |
When she sensed Selius Arconious's eyes upon her she walked especially well. |
10 |
| 27 | 108 |
Interestingly, too, though Ellen feared the lash, and would go to great lengths to avoid it, she, in the complex subtleties and ambiguities of the master/slave relationship, in which she was so obviously implicated, and despite her constant explicit reassurances to herself that she must hate her mas... |
10 |
| 27 | 246 |
Someone wants me! Someone thinks I am of interest! Indeed, it had been Portus Canio who had bought her off the shelf of Targo in Ar, in the Kettle Market! She stole a glance at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 330 |
Selius Arconious was no longer at her side. |
10 |
| 27 | 334 |
She saw Selius Arconious near the wagon. |
10 |
| 27 | 358 |
Selius Arconious returned to his bedding, and looked down, into the puzzled, frightened eyes of his slave, the Earth girl, Ellen. |
10 |
| 27 | 376 |
Selius Arconious had lifted his head, facing backward, nostrils flared, testing the wind, a moment later. |
10 |
| 27 | 388 |
Ellen, from her place on the wheel, looked wildly at Selius Arconious, who, looking backward, was unaware of the anxiety of her regard. |
10 |
| 27 | 399 |
"If they are this close to us, it is unlikely they are afoot," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 437 |
Why did she not rejoice? Was she not to be rescued from the grasp of he whom she feared and hated, her cruel master, Selius Arconious? She had little doubt then, though she could not yet see them, who followed them. |
10 |
| 27 | 447 |
"The sleen will not be most dangerous unless they are set upon us," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 480 |
She was in the brief tunic which had been permitted to her by Selius Arconious, was barefoot, and collared. |
10 |
| 27 | 498 |
"Or," said Selius Arconious, "you could butcher and roast one of your shaggy friends". |
10 |
| 27 | 501 |
"Though," said Selius Arconious, "I expect their meat would be tough". |
10 |
| 27 | 510 |
"Wait," said Selius Arconious, "I know you. |
10 |
| 27 | 515 |
"But misery and woe," said Selius Arconious, "even if I were to give her to you for nothing, I would be cheating you. |
10 |
| 27 | 520 |
"She is not for sale," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 525 |
"Of course," said Selius Arconious, "as she is a slave". |
10 |
| 27 | 530 |
"I do not know from whence it came," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 559 |
"It is a weapon!" "Surely an unlikely weapon," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 593 |
"Do you want to go with them?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 598 |
"Do not respond," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 616 |
"And you want her?" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 618 |
"You may not have her," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 619 |
Ellen looked up, startled, at Selius Arconious, who paid her no attention. |
10 |
| 27 | 622 |
"So, too, am I," said Selius Arconious, evenly. |
10 |
| 27 | 624 |
"Quiet, slut," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 628 |
"Of course," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 630 |
He leveled the weapon at the chest of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 631 |
"Please, no, Master!" cried Ellen, leaping up, wildly, unbidden, and interposing her body between the muzzle of the weapon and the body of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 633 |
"What are you doing?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 723 |
Mirus then returned his gaze to Ellen, who knelt facing him, Selius Arconious standing behind her. |
10 |
| 27 | 726 |
"No!" cried Selius Arconious, and lunged forward, but he was seized by two of his fellows, who restrained him, as he struggled. |
10 |
| 27 | 743 |
The ropes now were not those of Selius Arconious, her master, in which she might have been left alone, to simmer in his absence, well aware of her bound limbs, or squirmed in anticipation, delighting in her helplessness, and readying herself for his caresses, against which she would be helpless to d... |
10 |
| 27 | 745 |
Should you not be pleased, she asked herself, to be taken from the presence of so hateful, vile, and arrogant a monster as Selius Arconious! Surely, yes, she told herself. |
10 |
| 27 | 747 |
At a gesture from Portus Canio Selius Arconious stopped struggling, but he stood, trembling, dark with rage, between the two who had briefly held him. |
10 |
| 27 | 750 |
"The Priest-Kings do not concern themselves with the affairs of men," said Selius Arconious, bitterly. |
10 |
| 27 | 768 |
She looked back, to see Selius Arconious and the others. |
10 |
| 27 | 854 |
His gaze lingered last, and longest, on that of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 855 |
Then, without removing his gaze from that of Selius Arconious, whom he seemed to somehow sense might be the most dangerous, or the most desperate, or the most irrational, or the first to act, he uttered a succession of soft, low, almost gentle, growling noises. |
10 |
| 27 | 870 |
Ellen looked wildly at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 871 |
Selius Arconious suddenly, wildly, pointed to the sky, far, high, away, behind the riders. |
10 |
| 27 | 914 |
He was then somewhat in advance of his fellows, and a few feet from the translator and Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 929 |
Selius Arconious released the body and it fell from him, to the grass. |
10 |
| 27 | 934 |
Selius Arconious stepped back. |
10 |
| 27 | 941 |
Ellen thought for an instant that the eyes of he whom Selius Arconious had briefly held had opened for an agonized instant, the body understanding that it was being eaten, but this was doubtless merely a consequence of its subjection to the frenzied molestation. |
10 |
| 27 | 943 |
The body was probably dead before it reached the grass, fallen before the sandals of the stunned, disbelieving Selius Arconious, he shaken from the noise and the horror, his knife held lamely in his hand. |
10 |
| 27 | 975 |
"Be silent, slave," snarled Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1006 |
"Tarnsmen!" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1011 |
"Tarnsmen," repeated Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1021 |
Selius Arconious flung himself toward Ellen, dragged her to the earth and covered her body for an instant with his own, crouching over it, looking up, wildly. |
10 |
| 27 | 1025 |
In an odd almost still instant she saw the breeze ruffle its fletching, and then cried out as Selius Arconious dragged her to her feet by a bound arm and, looking upward, rushed her stumbling to the wagon, and hurled her savagely, she rolling, beneath it. |
10 |
| 27 | 1057 |
She then saw, with a gasp of relief, Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1069 |
Then he regarded Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1071 |
Selius Arconious shrugged. |
10 |
| 27 | 1078 |
"As I said," said Selius Arconious, "I did not shoot well enough". |
10 |
| 27 | 1127 |
Selius Arconious struck at least two. |
10 |
| 27 | 1148 |
"They sought him," said he, nodding toward Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1151 |
"And where is this gold?" he asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1152 |
"I have forgotten," said Selius. |
10 |
| 27 | 1510 |
That is possible! It is said Tersius Major is with them! He may want me! Many times in the tarn loft have his eyes greedily roved me! A slave is not unaware of such things! If this should be true, if it is I whom they want, give me to them!" "Vain slave," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1512 |
"Do not flatter yourself, property-slut," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1519 |
Men bid silver upon me, silver!" "You are worth no more than a handful of tarsk-bits," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1520 |
"If it should be I whom they want," said Ellen, "give me to them! Save yourselves!" "They are not thinking slave," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1539 |
"And it seems," said Selius Arconious, "that as you may have followed us with such in mind, so, too, with such in mind, have the Cosians followed you". |
10 |
| 27 | 1542 |
"Are you so fond of Tersius Major?" inquired Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1544 |
"Do not think you can so easily escape my collar," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1546 |
"Do you allow your women to speak without permission?" asked the spokesman of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1548 |
"Let me speak!" "Spread your knees," snapped Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1551 |
Selius Arconious regarded her, not pleasantly. |
10 |
| 27 | 1553 |
"Take the rope from my neck! Let me run! Perhaps they will be distracted, and you may make away!" But Selius Arconious was paying her no attention. |
10 |
| 27 | 1565 |
"If you run," said Selius Arconious, "as soon as you are caught, by whomsoever catches you, I or another, you will be treated as a runaway, and will be subjected to the sanctions appropriately levied against a runaway girl". |
10 |
| 27 | 1569 |
"Tie the slut's leash to the wagon," said Selius Arconious, irritably. |
10 |
| 27 | 1570 |
Ellen looked at Selius Arconious, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 27 | 1576 |
"See the swing of the baskets," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1587 |
"I think not," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1596 |
When she lifted her head again, Selius Arconious was gone. |
10 |
| 27 | 1631 |
Before him stood Selius Arconious, his body bloody, filthy from war, his tunic torn and soiled, gasping for breath, regarding Mirus furiously, balefully. |
10 |
| 27 | 1633 |
Mirus in fury reached to his belt and drew his pistol, and it was centered on the heart of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1635 |
Surely Selius Arconious knew the meaning of that weapon. |
10 |
| 27 | 1641 |
"Why are you not at your post?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1643 |
"Now," said Selius Arconious, "you know the meaning of Gor". |
10 |
| 27 | 1645 |
Selius Arconious, looking about, lifted the bound slave, enwrapping her in his arms. |
10 |
| 27 | 1648 |
Selius scowled, and then smiled. |
10 |
| 27 | 1657 |
There was a pair of shots from the west, and Selius Arconious hurried away. |
10 |
| 27 | 1677 |
"No more lightning! We surrender!" Ellen recalled that when she had seen Selius Arconious he had no longer had the crossbow. |
10 |
| 27 | 1681 |
Selius Arconious, with Fel Doron, and Portus Canio, slowly, upright, wearily, approached the wagon. |
10 |
| 27 | 1684 |
Selius Arconious motioned that Ellen should emerge from under the wagon, and the slave complied, and came to kneel at the feet of her master, frightened. |
10 |
| 27 | 1746 |
"Surely it is a reliable currency," said Selius Arconious, as though concerned. |
10 |
| 27 | 1838 |
"It is lost, doubtless somewhere in the grass!" Tersius Major's eyes went from face to face, from Portus Canio, to Fel Doron, to Selius Arconious, to their other fellow, and thence to the kneeling spokesman, to the sleenmaster, to Mirus, to the wounded man. |
10 |
| 27 | 1852 |
"She is worthy," said Selius Arconious, "to be kept as no more than a pot girl, or a kettle-and-mat girl, or perhaps as a shaved-headed, hobbled camp slut". |
10 |
| 27 | 1855 |
Ellen smiled at Selius Arconious, innocently. |
10 |
| 27 | 1857 |
"One might always strip her, and make an assessment," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 1859 |
She looked up angrily at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2008 |
She shrank back a little, on her knees, an inch or so farther from the beast, an inch or so farther from the sandals of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2143 |
"We are not slaves!" said the fellow of Portus Canio, Loquatus, only he left of the original nine, other than Portus Canio himself, Selius Arconious and Fel Doron. |
10 |
| 27 | 2154 |
Selius Arconious cast a glance at Ellen, she kneeling, bound, collared, a bit of rope on her neck. |
10 |
| 27 | 2296 |
Selius Arconious was momentarily illuminated in a flash of lightning, looking wildly about, his fists clenched. |
10 |
| 27 | 2298 |
"Steady, steady!" said Portus Canio to Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2334 |
"And who amongst you," he asked, "organized, or instigated, the lifting of the wagon?" "I," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2353 |
When this was done he turned to Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2356 |
Selius Arconious struggled at the wheel, his muscles lunging against the ropes. |
10 |
| 27 | 2404 |
She dared not look at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2440 |
She dared not look at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2537 |
She still did not turn to look at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2553 |
"What is it?" asked Selius Arconious, struggling at the wheel. |
10 |
| 27 | 2556 |
"Kajira!" snapped Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2599 |
Who blames the kaiila who responds to the digging heels, the reins and quirts of diverse riders? Suddenly she was suffused with anger, and remembered that she hated Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2604 |
Selius Arconious, as soon as she, saw that it was the spokesman, bound hand and foot. |
10 |
| 27 | 2698 |
"No," said Selius Arconious, bound at the wheel. |
10 |
| 27 | 2703 |
"Then he is not even an urt of Ar?" "No," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2809 |
"That one," said the officer, indicating Selius Arconious, bound at the wheel, "free from the wheel, but keep bound". |
10 |
| 27 | 2816 |
She cast a wild glance at Selius Arconious, who pulled angrily at his bonds, at the wheel. |
10 |
| 27 | 2821 |
Her eyes met those of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2830 |
Selius Arconious was freed from the wheel, but his wrists remained tied behind his back. |
10 |
| 27 | 2834 |
Selius Arconious, though freed from the wheel, continued to stand near it, angrily, bound. |
10 |
| 27 | 2847 |
"I would keep the young fellow bound for a time," he said, indicating Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2853 |
"Stand," said the soldier nearest Ellen, he who had drawn her away from the feet of her master, Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2858 |
The soldier then took a length of rope and knotted it to the length of rope which was already on her neck, that which Mirus, in his attempt, during the fray, to make away with her, had slashed short, an attempt foiled by Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2899 |
"Here, slave girl," said he, "now!" "Do not move," snapped Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2906 |
"Selius Arconious, of Ar," cried Ellen. |
10 |
| 27 | 2907 |
"I am owned by Selius Arconious of Ar, tarnster, of the caste of Tarn Keepers!" "I will have you!" said Mirus. |
10 |
| 27 | 2921 |
"Stop!" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2923 |
"I will give her to you before I will have her die," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2931 |
"Do not be a fool," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2942 |
Ellen regarded the standing, bound Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 2963 |
She wished Selius Arconious was free. |
10 |
| 27 | 3008 |
It was her master, Selius Arconious! The beasts had ignored him in their first onslaught, as they had the slave, for he was bound with rope, and she no more than female and slave, and braceleted. |
10 |
| 27 | 3015 |
"Command them!" cried Selius Arconious, wildly. |
10 |
| 27 | 3019 |
Vengefully Kardok pointed to Selius Arconious and the free beast lunged forward, jaws slavering. |
10 |
| 27 | 3020 |
It seized Selius Arconious by the shoulders and opened its great, cavernous, fanged jaws, and bent toward his throat, and the slave screamed, and suddenly, almost at her ear, almost like being enwrapped within a clap of thunder and a stroke of lightning, there was a loud report, the blast, of a pist... |
10 |
| 27 | 3021 |
The beast released Selius Arconious and looked puzzled for a moment. |
10 |
| 27 | 3028 |
Selius Arconious cast Mirus a glance of hatred, which attention seemed unnoticed by the shaken Mirus. |
10 |
| 27 | 3029 |
Portus Canio, bloody, hastened in this moment to Selius Arconious and slashed apart the bonds that bound him. |
10 |
| 27 | 3030 |
"Give me a blade!" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3099 |
"No!" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3114 |
Then she whispered to Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3116 |
"Be silent, slut," said Selius Arconious, severely. |
10 |
| 27 | 3132 |
"You may not have the slave," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3137 |
Selius Arconious caught the keys. |
10 |
| 27 | 3145 |
"True," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3199 |
Selius Arconious, angrily, went to face Mirus. |
10 |
| 27 | 3206 |
"No, Master! Please, no, Master!" "You will find her poorly trained, and worthless," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3210 |
And with those words he withdrew from Ellen and placed, as she turned and watched, from her side, the keys in the hands of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3211 |
"Why?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3213 |
"Perhaps," said Selius Arconious, wonderingly, "you are worthy of a Home Stone". |
10 |
| 27 | 3215 |
"What will you do, where will you go?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3219 |
"I think, then," said Selius Arconious, "that you are indeed worthy of a Home Stone". |
10 |
| 27 | 3221 |
"My hand!" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3266 |
Selius Arconious nodded, watching the work of Portus Canio. |
10 |
| 27 | 3277 |
Then she looked pathetically at Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3314 |
She straightened her body, noted that Selius Arconious was watching her, and, pretending not to notice, pulled down the sides of her brief tunic, intently, tightly, this accentuating the flare of her hips, demurely. |
10 |
| 27 | 3323 |
When the meat was done, she would not touch it, of course, but it was removed from the cooking rods and cut by Portus Canio, who distributed it, to Fel Doron, and Selius Arconious, and Mirus, who took some to his wounded fellow. |
10 |
| 27 | 3324 |
Portus Canio, Fel Doron and Selius Arconious sat cross-legged about the fire. |
10 |
| 27 | 3325 |
Ellen lay on her belly at the left knee of Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3331 |
"You have an attractive slave," he told Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3332 |
"You can buy one for yourself, almost anywhere," said Selius Arconious, "or you can always capture a free woman, if you can find one lovely enough to be a slave, and tame and train her". |
10 |
| 27 | 3334 |
"Remember that men are the masters," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3336 |
"If you treat a slave well," said Selius Arconious, "you will get a great deal of pleasure out of her". |
10 |
| 27 | 3339 |
Mirus regarded Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3340 |
"One must make certain, of course," said Selius Arconious, "that she is not permitted the least latitude". |
10 |
| 27 | 3342 |
"Of course not," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3382 |
Certainly not," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3384 |
"Not really," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3388 |
"Who would wish to be on any other?" said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3389 |
Ellen lay on her belly at the left knee of her master, Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3399 |
Selius Arconious tore off a bit of warm, juicy meat and held it to the slave, who took it delicately between her teeth, juice running at the side of her chin, but he did not release it. |
10 |
| 27 | 3417 |
"Yes," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3420 |
How far away now seemed Earth, and her former life! But had she not, even then, so long ago, dreamed of lying half naked, collared, beside a master? "You may now lie as you wish," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3427 |
"She is only a slave," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3447 |
"I love them for it!" "It seems," said Mirus to Selius Arconious, "that you have found a slave, one who is fully your own". |
10 |
| 27 | 3448 |
"Yes, it seems so," said Selius Arconious, "for the moment, at least, or until I tire of her". |
10 |
| 27 | 3450 |
"Why do you not do so, as well?" Selius Arconious asked Mirus, paying the slave no attention. |
10 |
| 27 | 3452 |
"But you are not now where you come from," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3454 |
"Will you not accept a woman for what she is?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3456 |
"In each woman," said Selius Arconious, "there is a slave, longing to be commanded forth and ordered to one's feet". |
10 |
| 27 | 3458 |
"In each man," said Selius Arconious, "there is a master, and in each woman, a slave. |
10 |
| 27 | 3469 |
"It must be a strange world," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3471 |
"But this is now your world," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3474 |
"You must buy yourself a slave," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3476 |
"Will you buy a Gorean girl or a barbarian?" asked Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3479 |
"Excellent," said Selius Arconious. |
10 |
| 27 | 3518 |
"Get in the wagon," Selius Arconious told his slave. |
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| 28 | 117 |
On his other side, opposite the restless, discomfited slave, Selius Arconious had laid an unsheathed weapon. |
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| 28 | 138 |
The second beast then seemed to appear from nowhere and scrambled its way on all fours, dirt spattering behind it, toward Selius Arconious and the fallen Mirus. |
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| 28 | 145 |
Kardok back on its haunches, bleeding, forced the blade of Selius Arconious from his own chest, wedging it away by the hilt with one paw and the flowing stub of the other. |
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| 28 | 151 |
Bosk of Port Kar picked up the warmed, bright, red-rich, drenched blade of Selius Arconious, and held it out to him. |
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| 28 | 152 |
Selius Arconious then followed Kardok from the camp. |
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| 28 | 156 |
But in a matter of moments Selius Arconious returned to the camp, wading through the grass; in his right hand was a bloodied sword; in his left hand, dangling, was the massive, bleeding head of Kardok. |
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| 28 | 169 |
Selius Arconious cast aside the great head of Kardok. |
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| 28 | 187 |
"You saved my life," said Mirus to Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 188 |
"Are we not then even?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 201 |
My love is Selius Arconious, she said to herself, but surely one could do worse than belong to one such as Mirus, he who once owned me. |
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| 28 | 239 |
"Yes," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 248 |
"I, too," averred Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 254 |
"No," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 258 |
"Yet," said Selius Arconious, "if they were still with us, this, it seemed, would be the likely morning for them to act, for this morning Mirus and his fellow are on to Brundisium, and we, with the slave, will trek toward Ar. |
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| 28 | 264 |
"There," said Selius Arconious, indicating the object to the side, "the preparation of the travois, the wounded fellow of Mirus no longer to be transported in the wagon". |
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| 28 | 267 |
"No," said Selius Arconious, "lest she inadvertently, by signs of uneasiness, alert the beasts as to such suspicions". |
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| 28 | 305 |
"Get up and get to work," said Selius Arconious, unpleasantly. |
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| 28 | 313 |
What beasts men are, thought Ellen, to openly compare the limbs of slaves! Are we animals? And then, of course, devastatingly, the obvious thought came to her that yes, of course, they were animals! "Get busy!" snapped Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 328 |
Then, with the help of Portus Canio and Selius Arconious, his weak fellow was placed on the travois. |
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| 28 | 411 |
"Bid him farewell," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 414 |
Then, at a gesture from Selius Arconious, she put down her head and humbly kissed his feet. |
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| 28 | 418 |
"Thank you, Master," she whispered, so that Selius Arconious, who was standing to one side, could not hear. |
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| 28 | 424 |
"You have taught me something of this world," said Mirus to Selius Arconious. |
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| 28 | 426 |
"It is nothing," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 33 |
Selius Arconious was now there, having come forward at her call, from the wagon. |
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| 29 | 40 |
"She was quite lovely," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 47 |
"It was thoughtful of her master to so display her," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 56 |
"But well did I humble her!" "Doubtless," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 62 |
"Perhaps tomorrow morning, early," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 66 |
Selius Arconious turned about, and made his way back through the trees. |
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| 29 | 69 |
Too, she was not too pleased with Selius Arconious, for he had, as in the grasslands, muchly ignored her, and had not put her to the usages of a slave, those usages which were appropriate for her, and which she, collared, craved. |
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| 29 | 70 |
Indeed, some of her earlier feelings of ambiguity pertaining to Selius Arconious had begun to reassert themselves. |
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| 29 | 77 |
To be sure, she did not wish to belong to another, though she was sure that another would not be as understanding, as patient, as kind, as boring, as neglectful, as trivial with her as Selius Arconious, but would see to it, firmly, severely, whip in hand if need be, that the finest and fullest of he... |
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| 29 | 99 |
Selius Arconious is a weakling, she thought. |
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| 29 | 105 |
"Remove your tunic," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 116 |
Selius Arconious approached her. |
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| 29 | 127 |
"There is an abandoned tarsk pen nearby?" Selius Arconious asked Fel Doron. |
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| 29 | 130 |
"Then let us show our little she-tarsk," said Selius Arconious, grimly. |
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| 29 | 137 |
Here Selius Arconious angrily kicked away two of the lower horizontal poles, and left one horizontal pole in place, which was about four feet above the leaves, wood chips, rotted straw, and turf. |
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| 29 | 142 |
But Selius Arconious had returned to the wagon, and there, as nearly as the slave could tell, looking wildly over her right shoulder, began rummaging through his belongings. |
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| 29 | 146 |
She had been unable to see well behind her, given the angle from which Selius Arconious had approached. |
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| 29 | 148 |
"I purchased this at the festival camp, outside Brundisium," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 150 |
"I think it will do, nicely," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 155 |
"I thought I might need it," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 162 |
There was no mistaking the device in the hands of Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 191 |
"But what of the women of Earth who are not free?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 216 |
In this way she hoped to put Selius Arconious off his guard, and divert his wrath. |
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| 29 | 225 |
"Occasionally," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 239 |
And surely I have nothing to fear from him now!" "Ah, yes," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 242 |
"It amused me," said Selius Arconious, recollectively, "to see you dance as a slave, the slave you are. |
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| 29 | 258 |
"Who cares for a slave?" snarled Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 262 |
"That is our place! That is our place in nature! We long to be in our place in nature! We belong at your feet! We beg our collars! We lift and kiss our chains in gratitude! We ask only to kneel, to be used, and to serve!" "But do not speak of caring!" cried Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 311 |
"Prepare to be whipped, slave girl," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 313 |
"Are you in a collar?" asked Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 321 |
They would not even understand what it is to be a slave!" "Every woman," said Selius Arconious, "understands what it would be, to be a slave". |
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| 29 | 326 |
You are barbarians! I am not a barbarian! I am civilized! I am a civilized woman!" "'Girl,'" corrected Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 349 |
If asked, say, her master, the slave might respond, 'My master is Selius Arconious, of Ar', or such. |
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| 29 | 373 |
"So," said Selius Arconious, angrily, "you are other than Gorean women? More delicate, more sensitive, finer!" "Forgive me, Master!" wept Ellen. |
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| 29 | 376 |
"You are unworthy to tie the sandals of a Gorean woman," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 29 | 383 |
"Let us speak no more of your pathetic, miserable, tragic world," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 30 | 2 |
About the table, cross-legged, sat Selius Arconious, her master, Portus Canio, Fel Doron, Bosk of Port Kar, and Marcus, of Ar's Station. |
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| 30 | 15 |
Selius Arconious shrugged, noncommittally. |
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| 30 | 43 |
These men remember me from the grasslands, and it is the intention of Selius Arconious to make it clear to them that his slave is different now from what they saw then, that she is muchly changed, that she is now an acceptable slave, a well-mastered slave. |
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| 30 | 124 |
"Bread," said Selius Arconious, gesturing toward the kitchen. |
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| 30 | 214 |
"Respond," called Selius Arconious, from behind her. |
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| 30 | 216 |
"Now," said Selius Arconious, "eyes front, slave!" And then Ellen continued on her way, not looking to the side, or back. |
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| 30 | 225 |
Selius Arconious, standing, regarded his property, kneeling. |
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| 30 | 256 |
"Have no fear, dear lady," said Selius Arconious, politely. |
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| 30 | 260 |
"You were to receive ten strokes for the first offense, and five for the second," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 30 | 290 |
"Tal," said they to Selius Arconious. |
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| 30 | 293 |
"Fifteen," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 30 | 320 |
Selius Arconious, a tarnster of Ar, had been pleased. |
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| 30 | 368 |
She recalled there had been a bid of fifteen silver tarsks on her even before Mirus and Selius Arconious had entered upon their competition for a slave, the shapely, gray-eyed brunette being displayed and auctioned. |
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| 30 | 412 |
"I, Ellen, the slave of Selius Arconious, tarnster of Ar, desire sexual pleasure". |
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| 30 | 414 |
"I, Ellen, slave, property of Selius Arconious, of Ar, beg sexual pleasure!" She looked up at him, pathetically. |
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