| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 143 |
Perhaps Treve has never attacked Thentis because she, too, is a mountain city, lying in the Mountains of Thentis, or more likely because the men of Treve respect her tarnsmen almost as much as they do their own. |
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| 26 | 1 |
The Safekeeping of Vika of Treve It was hard to believe that the gentle, obedient girl who nestled in my arms, who had so leaped and sobbed with pleasure, was the proud Vika of Treve. |
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| 8 | 95 |
"My city is Treve," she said, for the first time telling me the name of her city. |
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| 8 | 97 |
So Vika was from Treve. |
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| 8 | 99 |
Treve was a warlike city somewhere in the trackless magnificence of the Voltai Range. |
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| 8 | 104 |
It was seldom a girl from Treve ascended the auction block. |
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| 8 | 107 |
Treve was alleged to lie above Ar, some seven hundred pasangs distant, and toward the Sardar. |
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| 8 | 109 |
The precise location of Treve was not known to me and was perhaps known to few save its citizens. |
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| 8 | 111 |
There was said to be no access to Treve save on tarnback and this would suggest that it must be as much a mountain stronghold as a city. |
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| 8 | 113 |
Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, retaliatory winter campaign could not be la... |
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| 8 | 114 |
A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai. |
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| 8 | 116 |
Since that time her depredations had gone unchecked, although perhaps it should be added that never again did the men of Treve despoil the fields of Ar. |
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| 8 | 120 |
I wondered if many of Treve's women were as beautiful as Vika. |
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| 8 | 122 |
"Are all the women of Treve as beautiful as you?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 139 |
"I didn't know they had physicians in Treve," I said. |
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| 8 | 140 |
"We have all the High Castes in Treve," she said, angrily. |
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| 8 | 141 |
The only two cities, other than Ar, which I knew that Treve did not periodically attack were mountainous Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, and Ko-ro-ba, my own city. |
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| 8 | 147 |
Thus when the tarnsmen of Treve came to the grain fields of Ko-ro-ba, which lie for the most part some pasangs from the city, toward the Vosk and Tamber Gulf, they would find her tarnsmen arrayed against them. |
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| 8 | 148 |
Having come for grain and not war, the men of Treve would then turn back, and seek out the fields of a less well-defended city. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among... |
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| 8 | 152 |
Treve's other needs seemed to be satisfied much in the same way as her agricultural ones, for her raiders were known from the borders of the Fair of En'Kara, in the very shadow of the Sardar, to the delta of the Vosk and the islands beyond, such as Tyros and Cos. |
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| 8 | 153 |
The results of these raids might be returned to Treve or sold, perhaps even at the Fair of En'Kara, or another of the four great Sardar Fairs, or, if not, they could always be disposed of easily without question in distant, crowded, malignant Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 154 |
"How do the people of Treve live?" I asked Vika. |
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| 8 | 165 |
Yes, I knew the reputation of Treve. |
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| 8 | 167 |
Indeed, Treve was known as the Tarn of the Voltai. |
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| 8 | 177 |
"The physicians of Treve," I said, "have marvelous medicines". |
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| 8 | 197 |
It was truly a woman of Treve who stood before me now. |
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| 8 | 199 |
Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea... |
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| 8 | 234 |
"The women of Treve," I said, "are brave, as well as beautiful and proud". |
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| 9 | 35 |
"But you are a woman of Treve," I said, smiling. |
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| 9 | 53 |
"But my father," said Vika, "whose slave she was, and who was of the Caste of Physicians of Treve, loved her very much and asked her to be his Free Companion". |
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| 9 | 109 |
"He tried to prevent me but I sought out the Initiates of Treve, proposing myself as an offering to the Priest-Kings. |
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| 9 | 163 |
Her voice had borne the cruel, icy, confident, passionate menace of a woman from Treve, accustomed to have what she wanted, who would not be denied. |
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| 9 | 164 |
I turned to face Vika once more, and I no longer saw the girl to whom I had been speaking but a woman of High Caste, from the bandit kingdom of Treve, insolent and imperious, though collared. |
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| 16 | 163 |
"Was the fact that I was placed in the chamber of the girl Vika of Treve considered?" "Sarm suspects," said Misk, "and it was he who arranged your quarters, in order that you might succumb to her charms, that she might enthrall you, that she might bend you helplessly, pliantly to her will and whim a... |
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| 18 | 151 |
I allowed him also to suppose that I suspected—but not that I knew—of his plot, for I had you placed in the chamber of Vika of Treve, and it was there he proved his guilt beyond doubt by rushing to protect you". |
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| 18 | 153 |
"The girl Vika of Treve has never failed me," said Sarm. |
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| 18 | 154 |
My fists clenched on the railing and bitterness choked in my throat, and the hatred I had felt for the girl of Treve lit once again its dark fires in my breast. |
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| 18 | 166 |
"And supposing I had agreed to do your bidding, what would have been my reward for all this?" "Vika of Treve," said Sarm. |
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| 18 | 168 |
"Not so pleasant for Vika of Treve," I said. |
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| 19 | 80 |
"Vika of Treve?" "Of course". |
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| 19 | 97 |
"In the accomplishing of this matter you do a great service to the Nest and to Priest-Kings, and thereby will you gain great glory for yourself and a life of honor and riches, the first of which will be the slave girl Vika of Treve". |
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| 20 | 6 |
"Not the least of which, we are requested to point out," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "is the enjoyment of the female Mul Vika of Treve". |
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| 20 | 154 |
What did this mean? "That was the collar number of Vika of Treve," I said. |
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| 20 | 158 |
"It means," said Mul-Al-Ka, "that Vika of Treve no longer exists". |
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| 20 | 159 |
I suddenly felt as though a hammer had struck me, for though I hated Vika of Treve I would not have wished her dead. |
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| 20 | 182 |
"No," said Mul-Al-Ka, "we are simply to tell you that Vika of Treve awaits you in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle". |
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| 20 | 192 |
I smiled to myself, for I thought how incredible that I should find myself naturally and without a second thought considering going to the rescue of the worthless, vicious wench, Vika of Treve. |
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| 22 | 123 |
"The girl Vika of Treve lies in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle," I said. |
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| 23 | 1 |
I Find Vika I gathered that I had arrived too late to save Vika of Treve. |
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| 23 | 20 |
Yet I myself I knew would have preferred to see the assailant and so I found myself wishing that this brief, terrible privilege had been Vika of Treve's, for I remembered her as a woman of courage and pride. |
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| 23 | 25 |
Though I had hated Vika of Treve I would not have wanted this fate to be hers, nor could I believe that any man, even those whom she had injured, could have wished it to be so. |
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| 23 | 30 |
"I am sorry," I said, "I am sorry, Vika of Treve". |
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| 23 | 44 |
I turned my back on Vika of Treve and, carrying the torch, left the cavern. |
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| 23 | 51 |
As I wandered through these passages my sorrow for Vika of Treve struggled with my hatred for the Golden Beetle until I forced myself to clear my head of emotion and concentrate on the task at hand. |
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| 23 | 55 |
And how was it, I asked myself, that the Golden Beetle had not already feasted on the delicate flesh of the proud beauty of Treve? And I wondered on the five strange protuberances that nested so grotesquely in her lovely body. |
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| 23 | 61 |
"Forgive me, Vika of Treve!" I cried. |
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| 23 | 70 |
I then took my sword and wiped the oil from one side of the blade and set the shining steel against the lips of the girl from Treve. |
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| 23 | 73 |
"My girl of Treve," I said. |
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| 24 | 11 |
Most I feared for the safety of Vika of Treve. |
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| 25 | 14 |
My eyes fell on Vika of Treve. |
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| 25 | 31 |
I lifted the girl Vika of Treve in my arms. |
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| 25 | 134 |
"Is it the custom of the proud women of Treve," I asked, "to appear so scantily clad before men?" She looked down at the brief rags she wore, insufficient even for a slave girl, and at her bound wrists. |
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| 25 | 150 |
"I see," she said, "that even though I was once a proud woman of the high city of Treve you have not honored me with binding fiber but have bound my limbs only with the thong of your sandal, as though I might be the lowest tavern slave in Ar—carried off on a wager, a whim or caprice". |
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| 25 | 151 |
"Are you, Vika of Treve," I asked, "higher than she of whom you speak, the lowest tavern slave in Ar?" Her answer astounded me. |
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| 25 | 159 |
I extended my hands to her and her eyes met mine, blue and beautiful and calm, and she lifted her bound wrists and placed them in my hands and kneeling before me lowered her head between her arms and said softly, very clearly, "I the girl Vika of Treve submit myself—completely—to the m... |
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| 25 | 171 |
The words were spoken very softly, very slowly, haltingly, painfully, and it must have cost the proud girl of Treve much to speak them. |
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| 26 | 2 |
I still had not determined to my satisfaction that she might be fully trusted, much to her distress, and I would take no chances with her, for I knew who she was, the bandit princess of the lofty plundering Treve of the Voltai Range. |
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| 26 | 14 |
"You play your role well," I said, "and nearly was I fooled, Vika of Treve". |
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| 26 | 57 |
It was a most miserable and bewildered Vika of Treve whom I bundled into a small but comfortable plastic case on the fourth tier of the Vivarium. |
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| 26 | 95 |
"Look, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba," she said, "a woman of High Caste of the lofty city of Treve kneels before you and begs of you that you will not leave her here". |
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| 26 | 180 |
"No," she said, "you can't—you simply can't leave me here, not Vika of Treve". |
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| 26 | 225 |
Vika of Treve was my prisoner. |
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| 26 | 229 |
"Good-bye, Vika of Treve," I said. |
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| 26 | 301 |
I turned away, having more important things to attend to than the faithless wench from Treve. |
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| 27 | 27 |
Yes, the hours would be long and lonely for the caged, shorn Vika of Treve. |
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| 28 | 65 |
And there was, and in this case though it had been seared as if an attempt had been made to open it, I found Vika of Treve. |
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| 28 | 86 |
The case, I said to myself, has taught Vika of Treve much. |
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| 28 | 122 |
It was no longer in my heart to be cruel to Vika of Treve, no matter who or what she might be. |
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| 29 | 39 |
Had it truly been Vika of Treve? I raced to the workshop of Misk and flung open the double doors and leaped into the ship and secured the hatch, and in a moment it seemed the floor dropped a foot beneath me and the doors rushed forward. |
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| 30 | 29 |
"Treve," he said. |
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| 30 | 87 |
I should not have been surprised, but I was, when the first deserter from the forces of Misk proved to be the treacherous Vika of Treve. |
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| 30 | 94 |
The woman who stood over me with the whip, the woman clad in the most marvelous array of the most beautiful silks, wearing golden sandals and purple gloves, was Vika of Treve. |
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| 30 | 114 |
"You will pay as only I, Vika of Treve, know how to make a man pay". |
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| 30 | 165 |
I learned from conversation in the headquarters room that not many of the humans who fought with Misk's forces had responded to the blandishments of Sarm, though some, like Vika of Treve, had deserted to cast their fortune with what appeared to be the winning side. |
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| 31 | 11 |
To my surprise his pet Mul, Vika of Treve, demanded to accompany her golden master. |
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| 31 | 42 |
"I came to see my Master triumph!" cried Vika of Treve, her voice thrilled with emotion. |
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| 31 | 90 |
"And what," laughed Vika of Treve, "is to be my fate?" "You are free," I reminded her. |
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| 32 | 5 |
I heard the choking of a girl next to me and put my arm about the shoulders of Vika of Treve. |
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| 32 | 60 |
"Where will you choose to die?" I asked Vika of Treve. |
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| 32 | 212 |
I had found the elevator which had originally been used by Parp, whom I had learned was a physician of Treve, and who had been my host in my first hour in the domain of Priest-Kings. |
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| 32 | 339 |
"I have known many brave men," I said to her, "but none was more brave than Parp of Treve". |
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| 33 | 42 |
There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ... |
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| 34 | 82 |
I looked down at the girl from Treve. |
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| 34 | 99 |
"I shall return to Treve," said Vika. |
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| 34 | 100 |
"I shall continue there the work of a physician from Treve. |
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| 34 | 102 |
"In Treve," I said, "you might be ordered slain by members of the Caste of Initiates". |
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| 34 | 106 |
And I added, "And I think it will be a better city for you than Treve". |
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| 34 | 108 |
It would be hard to live now in Treve". |
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| 34 | 109 |
I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under masters appointed by Kazrak, where she might found a new life for herself far from warlike, plundering Treve, where she might work as befitted the daughter of a skilled, courageous father, where... |
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| 34 | 116 |
"Few," I said, "would be worthy of Vika of Treve". |
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| 34 | 123 |
"And I," I said, "wish you well, Vika, my girl of Treve". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 239 |
"And the first, who gave courage to them all," said he, "was a woman of the Caste of Physicians, once of Treve". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 246 |
"Yes!" "And," I said, "what of Ar, and Ko-ro-ba, and Treve, and Thentis, and Turia, and Tharna and Tor!" "Yes, yes, yes!" he whimpered. |
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| 17 | 264 |
"You are Terence," I asked, "mercenary captain of Treve?" The man nodded. |
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| 17 | 265 |
Treve is a bandit city, high among the crags of the larl-prowled Voltai. |
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| 17 | 267 |
Once the tarnsmen of Treve had withstood the tarn cavalries of even Ar. |
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| 17 | 268 |
In Treve they do not grow their own food but, in the fall, raid the harvests of others. |
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| 17 | 270 |
The men of Treve are said to be among the proudest and most ruthless on Gor. |
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| 17 | 273 |
I had once known a girl from Treve. |
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| 17 | 285 |
"I will have a hundred stone of gold for the use of these birds and my men," said Terence of Treve. |
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| 17 | 287 |
"I wish payment now," said the captain of Treve. |
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| 17 | 291 |
"We of Treve," he said, "understand such a pledge". |
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| 17 | 308 |
"We are of Treve," said Terence. |
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| 17 | 329 |
"Let me ride first," said Terence of Treve. |
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| 17 | 331 |
Why would one who had been a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, let one of Treve, a traditional enemy, take the saddle of a tarn before him? It would not do, of course, to tell him this. |
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| 18 | 136 |
Terence of Treve, mercenary captain of the tarnsmen, had refused to return to Port Kar before the return of the fleet. |
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| 18 | 138 |
"We men of Treve are brave," had said he, "but we are not mad". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1094 |
Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit. |
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| 14 | 126 |
Rask of Treve, in his way, as other raiders of Treve, carried the war to the enemy. |
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| 15 | 216 |
Sometimes there were visitors to the camp of Rask of Treve, though, one gathers, these were men in the confidence of Treve. |
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| 15 | 527 |
"The merchant," smiled Rask of Treve, "was persuaded to give her to me, free of all costs, as a token of his esteem for the men and city of Treve". |
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| 17 | 40 |
No scribe it seemed would own Inge, but she would belong to a brutal and powerful huntsman, the handsome Raf of Treve; and Rena's captain of Tyros, he who had contracted for her capture, must now surely be disappointed, and his gold lost, for his lovely prize has been taken by another, at whose feet... |
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| 17 | 343 |
"I am of Treve," Rask of Treve had told me, in the warehouse, where he stood bound to the wall. |
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| 17 | 348 |
"I am of Treve," had said Rask of Treve. |
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| 17 | 474 |
But Rask of Treve does not buy women, for he is of Treve. |
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| 17 | 481 |
And surely Rask, a captain of Treve, cannot bring the tarn cavalries of Treve to distant Port Kar, for a mere slave girl, and, too, such action would mean long and bloody war. |
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| 7 | 74 |
Two days out of Ko-ro-ba, crossing the fields northward toward Laura, the sky had darkened with a flight of outlaw tarnsmen, more than a hundred of them, under the command of the terrible Rask of Treve, one of the most dreaded warriors on all Gor. |
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| 11 | 1081 |
The other news dealt with the bold raids of Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1083 |
Four caravans had fallen spoils to the fierce, swiftly striking tarnsman of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1086 |
Koroban tarnsmen flew at all hours, in the high sun, in the cold morning, at dusk, even when the beacon fires burned upon the lofty walls, flew patterned sorties, and irregular sorties, but never did they find the elusive, marauding band of the terrible Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1088 |
I had some reason to know that name, Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1090 |
It had been he, Rask of Treve, who had raided Targo's slave caravan, before, in the fields northwest of Ko-ro-ba, on the route to Laura, a wandering, strangely clad, barbarian girl had been enslaved, whose name was El-in-or. |
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| 11 | 1091 |
Indeed, it was because of Rask of Treve that Targo, who became that El-in-or's master, had lost most of his women and wagons, and all of his bosk. |
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| 11 | 1103 |
There was little known of Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1104 |
Indeed, there was little known even of the city of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1108 |
Indeed, even merchants and ambassadors were permitted to approach the city only under conduct, and then only when hooded and in bonds, as though none not of Treve might approach her save as slaves or captive supplicants. |
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| 11 | 1110 |
Even girls brought to Treve as slaves, obedient within her harsh walls, looking up, seeing her rushing, swift skies, did not know wherein lay the city in which they served. |
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| 11 | 1113 |
It was said no woman had ever escaped from Treve. |
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| 11 | 1114 |
And little more seemed known of Rask of Treve than of his remote and mysterious city. |
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| 11 | 1116 |
It was said that a woman might not even know when she was in the presence of Rask of Treve, being casually examined, to see whether or not she was later to be acquired by him. |
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| 11 | 1122 |
Women, it was said, had special reason to fear Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1125 |
It was also said that he would use a woman only once, claiming that he had, he, Rask of Treve, in once using her, emptied her, exhausted her, taken from her all she had to give, and that, thus, she could no longer be of interest to him. |
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| 11 | 1126 |
No man on Gor, it was said, could so humble, or diminish, a woman as Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1127 |
And yet, it was said, there were few women on Gor, strangely enough, to the fury of their own men, or guardians, who were not willing to be used, and branded and spurned by Rask of Treve, that young, audacious, ruthless warrior, only that they might helplessly know his touch. |
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| 11 | 1128 |
Rask of Treve, it was said, had never purchased a woman. |
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| 11 | 1130 |
Rask of Treve, it was said, like many Gorean warriors, preferred free women, enjoying the delicious agonies of his prey, as he reduced them to the utterness of the surrendered female slave. |
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| 11 | 1266 |
I wished that I might have some opportunity to show my lack of fear of her, my contempt for her, that slave! In these days, as our training in the Koroban pens drew to its conclusion, I forgot both about Haakon of Skjern and Rask of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1267 |
Rask of Treve, it was said, had at last been driven from the environs and claims of the city of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 11 | 1269 |
At any rate, it seemed that Rask of Treve, and his raider's band, had left the lands of the Towers of the Morning. |
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| 11 | 1271 |
The skies remained clear of the thunder and screams of the tarns of Treve, the war cries of her spear-bearing warriors. |
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| 11 | 1272 |
Rask of Treve, it seemed, now sought elsewhere for the weight of gold and the flesh of women. |
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| 13 | 1185 |
"I am Rask," he said, "of the caste of warriors, of the city of Treve". |
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| 14 | 1 |
I Must Submit This was now my second day in the secret war camp of Rask of Treve. |
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| 14 | 3 |
Rask of Treve was popular with his men. |
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| 14 | 8 |
Laughing, raising his hands, Rask of Treve acknowledged the greetings of his camp. |
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| 14 | 34 |
"She is a pleasure slave," said Rask of Treve, "though of a poor sort. |
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| 14 | 45 |
Rask of Treve threw back his great head, like the head of a larl, and laughed. |
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| 14 | 62 |
"She is dirty and she smells," said Rask of Treve. |
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| 14 | 67 |
"Yes," I heard Rask of Treve say. |
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| 14 | 72 |
It was now the morning of my second day in the war camp of Rask of Treve. |
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| 14 | 80 |
I had been coached in the simple collaring ceremony of Treve. |
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| 14 | 91 |
The fact that New York City was of Earth, and that Treve was of Gor, would not even enter into the ceremony. |
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| 14 | 123 |
There were many warriors about, perhaps a hundred or more, the men of Rask of Treve, and perhaps some twenty girls, lovely ones, in brief work tunics, busying themselves with their tasks, cooking, cleaning leather, polishing shields. |
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| 14 | 124 |
Treve, I knew, was, nominally, at war with several cities. |
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| 14 | 206 |
Warriors of Treve, I had heard, had a fondness for warm wines. |
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| 14 | 207 |
I supposed that Rask of Treve might have his wine so. |
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| 14 | 211 |
I suspected there were few men as fierce and terrible as those of Treve, dreaded throughout Gor, and yet they enjoyed their wine warmed and were fond of so simple a thing as smoothing the hair of a girl. |
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| 14 | 228 |
"Foolish Kajira," she said, "it is the tent of Rask of Treve". |
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| 14 | 233 |
Rask of Treve did not wish to see me now. |
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| 14 | 256 |
"It is said," I said, "—I have heard—that Rask of Treve is a hard master". |
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| 14 | 259 |
"It is said," I blurted out, "that no man on Gor can so diminish or humble a woman as Rask of Treve". |
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| 14 | 261 |
"On the other hand, if Rask of Treve wished to diminish or humble a woman, I expect he would do it quite well". |
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| 14 | 264 |
"Rask of Treve would doubtless teach her her slavery well". |
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| 14 | 269 |
"Rask of Treve," she added, smiling, "is not a madman". |
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| 14 | 271 |
"No," she said, "I was branded with the mark of Treve". |
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| 14 | 278 |
"I expect that in the arms of such a man as Rask of Treve any woman might find herself a slave". |
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| 14 | 282 |
"Though sometimes, for some reason, the mark of Treve is pressed into her flesh". |
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| 14 | 292 |
"I have never seen the brand of Treve," I said. |
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| 14 | 305 |
"It is the first letter, in cursive script," she said, "of the name of the city of Treve". |
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| 14 | 324 |
I, the prisoner of Rask of Treve, in his war camp, struggled to control myself. |
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| 14 | 371 |
"But Rask of Treve prefers slave tunics on his girls". |
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| 14 | 541 |
"It is said that Rask of Treve," I said, "has a great appetite for women, and contempt, for them". |
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| 14 | 544 |
"Rask of Treve is a man, and a warrior," she said. |
10 |
| 14 | 557 |
"I wonder," she said, "if Rask of Treve will find you pleasing?" She removed the two pins which secured the garment I wore, stripping me. |
10 |
| 14 | 563 |
Rask of Treve is a great warrior. |
10 |
| 14 | 629 |
The pins would be undone by Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 14 | 655 |
I came to a clearing, before the tent of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 14 | 664 |
"Remove her bonds," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 14 | 675 |
Rask of Treve now stood some ten feet from me. |
10 |
| 14 | 681 |
"Step before me, naked," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 14 | 688 |
"I, Miss Elinor Brinton, of New York City, to the Warrior, Rask, of the High City of Treve, herewith submit myself as a slave girl. |
10 |
| 14 | 698 |
"Read the collar," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 14 | 706 |
"Read it to her," said Rask of Treve to Ena. |
10 |
| 14 | 707 |
"It says," said Ena, "—I am the property of Rask of Treve". |
10 |
| 14 | 725 |
I saw before me the dirt, and the sandals of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 24 |
My wrists were still bound, fastened by the leather knots of the tarnsman, Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 33 |
"On the first day of my capture, at the first camp of my captors," said Ute, "I fell to Rask of Treve". |
10 |
| 15 | 38 |
'I am Rask of Treve,' he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 40 |
With their own tarn goads, Rask of Treve then drove their tarns from their camp. |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
And one of them said to him, 'And we thank you, Rask of Treve, for our lives. |
10 |
| 15 | 45 |
Rask of Treve then brought me to his camp, where he made me his slave". |
10 |
| 15 | 52 |
Rask of Treve, by his will, and because, for some reason, he trusted me, set me above them all". |
10 |
| 15 | 84 |
I turned, as well as I could, and saw, to my dismay, Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 86 |
"It is as you said," said Rask of Treve, to Ute, "she is worthless". |
10 |
| 15 | 88 |
"She is a liar, and a thief, and a traitress," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 91 |
"See that she is worked well," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 93 |
Rask of Treve strode from where I knelt, leaving me with Ute. |
10 |
| 15 | 180 |
Often during the day, and sometimes for days at a time, most of the tarnsmen of Rask of Treve would be aflight. |
10 |
| 15 | 182 |
They were applying themselves to the work of the tarnsmen of Treve, attack, plunder and enslavement. |
10 |
| 15 | 187 |
And most of all was I thrilled to witness the return of their leader, the mighty, laughing Rask of Treve, whose very capture loop I had felt on my own body, whose collar I wore, whose I was. |
10 |
| 15 | 190 |
Once Rask of Treve, from the saddle, looked directly at me, finding me among the mere work slaves, in their work tunics. |
10 |
| 15 | 221 |
When I could, I would manage, in my daily tasks, to pass by the tent of Rask of Treve, that large, low tent, on its eight poles, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk. |
10 |
| 15 | 226 |
It seemed Rask of Treve had his choice of beautiful women. |
10 |
| 15 | 262 |
Inge and Rena, and the other new girls, followed me, and I took them to the chest at the side of the shed, where I could find them their simple, brief garments of brown rep-cloth, which raiment would constitute their sole work garment in the camp of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 281 |
* * * * Four days after Inge and Rena, and other new girls, had been brought to the secret war camp of Rask of Treve, the tarnsman, and his fierce men, again returned from the work of warriors. |
10 |
| 15 | 296 |
I must remain behind the kitchen shed, working, while they were permitted to greet the men! I wondered if Inge would be there, perhaps smiling and waving to Rask of Treve! How furious I was! But I reminded myself that I hated him! In time the excitement, the cries and shouts, diminished, and I knew ... |
10 |
| 15 | 307 |
"She seems to know you," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 319 |
Rask of Treve, my master, stood near her. |
10 |
| 15 | 331 |
"Shall I have her beaten for you?" asked Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 336 |
"You are not to lie again in this camp," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 342 |
"Permit me, Verna," said Rask of Treve, "to show you the rest of the camp". |
10 |
| 15 | 346 |
Then, together, Verna and Rask of Treve left me. |
10 |
| 15 | 367 |
They were shameless! "Those men," said Ena, "are Raf and Pron, huntsmen of Treve, though they range widely in their huntings, even to the northern forests. |
10 |
| 15 | 368 |
By order of Rask of Treve they, by their skill in weapons and their mastery of the techniques and lore of the hunt, and pretending to be of Minus, a village under the hegemony of Ar, made petition, and successfully so, to participate in the retinue of the great Ubar". |
10 |
| 15 | 370 |
"Treve," she said, "has spies in many places". |
10 |
| 15 | 372 |
"Freeing her, they escaped to a preappointed rendezvous, where Rask of Treve, with his men, met them, and brought them, and Verna, here". |
10 |
| 15 | 375 |
"When it became known that Marlenus, in his hunting, for his sport, would seek her, Rask of Treve gave order for Raf and Pron to attempt to join his retinue". |
10 |
| 15 | 381 |
"Treve and Ar are enemies". |
10 |
| 15 | 385 |
"Too," said Ena, thrilled, "is it not audacious that my master, Rask of Treve, places his war camp, from which he may despoil the fields and caravans of Ar, within the realm of mighty Ar itself!" "Yes," I whispered. |
10 |
| 15 | 387 |
I shuddered, momentarily thrilled with the boldness of my master, Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 404 |
What shameless, wanton slave girls they were! "Rask of Treve hates Marlenus of Ar," said Ena. |
10 |
| 15 | 424 |
Verna had her own tent in the camp of Rask of Treve, though often, when he was in the camp, she dined with him. |
10 |
| 15 | 436 |
Sometimes Verna would say, "Drink," and I would pour wine into her goblet, saying, "Yes, Mistress," and sometimes Rask of Treve would command me, saying "Drink," and I would then, similarly, serve him, saying "Yes, Master". |
10 |
| 15 | 445 |
Rask of Treve then threw me a piece of meat, that I might satisfy my hunger, for I had not been fed. |
10 |
| 15 | 447 |
Rask of Treve snapped his fingers. |
10 |
| 15 | 457 |
"She was trained in the pens of Ko-ro-ba," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 460 |
With his head Rask of Treve gestured me to one side, and I went and knelt to one side, as I had before. |
10 |
| 15 | 467 |
Rask of Treve looked at me. |
10 |
| 15 | 483 |
Rask of Treve threw the girl one of the oysters, from a silver plate on the low, wooden table. |
10 |
| 15 | 487 |
"It was destined for the table of Marlenus of Ar," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 491 |
"Remove your garment," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 493 |
"Remove it," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 495 |
"You may now dance, Talena," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 498 |
"Do you know who she is?" asked Rask of Treve, eating a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 15 | 507 |
"Perhaps," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 515 |
The firelight glinted on her collar, which had been placed on her throat by Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 519 |
"I have taught her something of slavery already," smiled Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 521 |
"How is she?" asked Verna, who had now again resumed her place, seating herself cross-legged by Rask of Treve's side. |
10 |
| 15 | 522 |
"Superb," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 525 |
"I acquired her about a year ago," said Rask of Treve, "from a merchant of Tyros, who was traveling by caravan overland to Ar, with the intention of returning her, for a recompense, to Marlenus of Ar". |
10 |
| 15 | 529 |
"I do not buy women," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 539 |
Rask of Treve, and Verna, laughed. |
10 |
| 15 | 542 |
"Tonight," said Rask of Treve to me, "because we have brought in new prisoners, there will be feasting and pleasure". |
10 |
| 15 | 546 |
"Why do you not give Talena to me?" asked Verna, of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 547 |
"Perhaps I shall," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 577 |
I wondered if, in silk and bells, Rask of Treve might notice me. |
10 |
| 15 | 583 |
"I must do nothing," I said, "to diminish the investment of Rask of Treve?" "That is correct," said Ute. |
10 |
| 15 | 606 |
I was too clever for them! At last our buckets were all full, and we returned to the camp of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 678 |
I turned to see Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 702 |
"This penalty brand," said Rask of Treve, lifting another iron from the brazier, again with a small letter at its glowing termination, "marks you also as what you are, as a thief". |
10 |
| 15 | 709 |
"This third iron," said Rask of Treve, "is, too, a penalty iron. |
10 |
| 15 | 712 |
"It marks you as a traitress," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 719 |
Rask of Treve lifted the last iron from the fire. |
10 |
| 15 | 724 |
It was the mark of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 725 |
Rask of Treve had decided that my flesh should bear that mark. |
10 |
| 15 | 727 |
"Yes, Worthless Slave," said he, "you will wear in your flesh the mark of the city of Treve". |
10 |
| 15 | 729 |
"When men ask you," said he, "who it was that marked you as liar and thief, and traitress, point to this brand and say, 'I was marked by one of Treve, who was displeased with me. |
10 |
| 15 | 738 |
He was a tarnsman of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 739 |
"With the mark of Treve," he said, "I brand you slave". |
10 |
| 15 | 747 |
"Bring the whip," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 763 |
I heard the voice of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 767 |
"Count," commanded Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 777 |
"Count," commanded Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 795 |
"Count!" said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 805 |
"Now," said Rask of Treve, "I shall beat you until it pleases me to stop". |
10 |
| 15 | 817 |
I remembered that a slave girl, on my first day in the camp of Rask of Treve, had warned me, that if I lied or stole, I would be beaten and put in the slave box. |
10 |
| 15 | 839 |
"Rask of Treve has forgotten you," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 885 |
Once, two weeks after my release from the slave box, Rask of Treve passed near me, in the company of Verna, the panther girl. |
10 |
| 15 | 890 |
One day became another in the secret war camp of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 892 |
Similarly, one day was much as another for Elinor Brinton, the female work slave in the camp of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 995 |
This afternoon, for the first time in weeks, the raids of Rask of Treve had been successful. |
10 |
| 15 | 1002 |
"Tonight," had cried Rask of Treve, blood on his shield, his eyes like those of laughing tarns, "we will feast!" The men had clashed their weapons on their shields and the girls had scurried away that the feast might be prepared. |
10 |
| 15 | 1132 |
"Do not laugh," smiled Ute, "for you, too, will be so marked, lest Raf and Pron, huntsmen of Treve, in a careless moment, devour my two other white-silk pretties". |
10 |
| 15 | 1155 |
Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles. |
10 |
| 15 | 1177 |
At the head of the feast sat the magnificent Rask of Treve, in his victory. |
10 |
| 15 | 1192 |
"Wine," said Rask of Treve, holding forth his cup. |
10 |
| 15 | 1253 |
I extended my hands to Rask of Treve, piteously. |
10 |
| 15 | 1256 |
I cried out with misery, my hands extended to Rask of Treve, my eyes pleading. |
10 |
| 15 | 1258 |
"Dance, Slave," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 1294 |
Then, as the music struck towards its swirling peaks I unaccountably, boldly, for no reason I understood, faced Rask of Treve, and before him, my master, I danced. |
10 |
| 15 | 1311 |
"Shall I have her whipped?" asked a man of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 1313 |
"No," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 1360 |
"Go to the tent of Rask of Treve," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 1361 |
* * * * "Enter," said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 15 | 1374 |
Rask of Treve owned much. |
10 |
| 15 | 1407 |
I now, in the fashion of the slave girl of Treve, held the wine crater against my right cheek. |
10 |
| 15 | 1410 |
A master of Treve does not care to be told that his girl thinks it is. |
10 |
| 15 | 1413 |
I did not know how he cared for his wine, for some men of Treve wish it warm, others almost hot. |
10 |
| 16 | 2 |
Rask of Treve had laughed. |
10 |
| 16 | 15 |
How furious I was! After my work for the day had been finished, I had hoped, breathlessly, vulnerably, that I might be again summoned to the tent of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 16 | 36 |
Why had I been put here? "Let her be chained under the moons of Gor," had said Verna, and Rask of Treve, laughing, had had it done. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
As I could, during the day, I had made it my business to pass near the tent of Rask of Treve, that he might see me. |
10 |
| 16 | 47 |
This evening Rask of Treve had supped with Verna, and I it was who had served them, only as before, their menial slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 48 |
Rask of Treve did not look upon me differently than he had before. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
"Tonight," had said Rask of Treve, casually, "send the girl, Talena, to my tent". |
10 |
| 16 | 59 |
"Wine," had said Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 16 | 75 |
Rask of Treve had given me some pleasure, of course. |
10 |
| 16 | 80 |
Rask of Treve smiled. |
10 |
| 16 | 83 |
Rask of Treve laughed. |
10 |
| 16 | 86 |
Rask of Treve indicated me. |
10 |
| 16 | 91 |
What did I care that the girl, Talena, was tonight sent to the tent of Rask of Treve? I hated him! I hated her, even more than him! I wished the guard had not taken my clothes. |
10 |
| 16 | 102 |
Do not scorn me, nor mock me, until you yourself, perhaps, on a distant world, someday wear a collar, until you, yourself, as a slave, have known the touch of such a man as Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 16 | 112 |
"Send for me, Rask of Treve!" I whimpered. |
10 |
| 16 | 125 |
If I could free myself I would run to Rask of Treve! I would beg him for his touch! I pulled at the chain, so heavy on my ankle. |
10 |
| 16 | 142 |
I wanted to seek the feet of Rask of Treve, on my belly, abjectly, as befits a slave; I wanted to cover them with soft, abundant cascades of hair, water them with salty, plentiful tears; I wanted to lick them, deferentially, lengthily, with a small, warm tongue; I wanted to kiss them, timidly, tende... |
10 |
| 16 | 143 |
Please want me, Rask of Treve, I whispered to myself. |
10 |
| 16 | 173 |
"Sometimes," said Verna, "it requires a man such as Rask of Treve to teach a woman this weakness". |
10 |
| 16 | 178 |
"Rask of Treve," said Verna, smiling, "has given you no choice". |
10 |
| 16 | 181 |
Rask of Treve, my Gorean master, had not seen fit to permit me choice in the matter of my helpless surrender. |
10 |
| 16 | 193 |
"Rask of Treve has given her to me. |
10 |
| 16 | 199 |
I knew, of course, that Talena was a slave in this camp, and had been slave to Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 16 | 209 |
But doubtless even a greater blow was to have been given away by Rask of Treve, and to a woman! I did not doubt but what Verna appreciated the ironies of this situation. |
10 |
| 16 | 212 |
The work tunic would conceal the identity of her new acquisition, generously bestowed on her from the bounty of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 16 | 214 |
"But she is the favorite of Rask of Treve," I whispered. |
10 |
| 16 | 216 |
"Will you not stay in the camp," I asked, "as the comrade of Rask of Treve?" She looked at me, and smiled. |
10 |
| 16 | 223 |
"Once," she said, "long ago, in the city of Ar, I saw a man, and, in seeing him, for the only time in my life, I was afraid, for I feared he might do to me, if he wished, what Rask of Treve has done to you. |
10 |
| 16 | 235 |
"Should I see Rask of Treve," said Verna, "I will tell him that there is a chained girl who, beneath the moons of Gor, begs him for his touch". |
10 |
| 16 | 303 |
Rask of Treve did not bother to unchain me, but used me as I was, eager and moaning, beneath the moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 16 | 304 |
* * * * Rask of Treve held my head in his two hands. |
10 |
| 16 | 314 |
I looked up into the eyes of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 16 | 329 |
"Can it be," he asked, "that I, Rask of Treve, care for a mere slave?" "I love you, Master," I cried, "I love you, I love you!" He did not let me press my lips to his. |
10 |
| 16 | 364 |
"No female slave escapes Rask of Treve," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 374 |
"Rask of Treve's," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 398 |
"It is well known to Rask of Treve," I smiled, "whom it is that the slave girl, El-in-or, loves". |
10 |
| 16 | 401 |
"She loves Rask of Treve". |
10 |
| 16 | 418 |
"In your dance, before you fell before me in the sand," said Rask of Treve, "I thought I detected in your dance something other than contempt and scorn". |
10 |
| 16 | 466 |
How the girls would have cried out with envy to see me, secure in such a cloak, and that, too, of the mighty Rask of Treve! But I did not wish to wear it. |
10 |
| 16 | 470 |
No, let it not be revealed that he, my master, the mighty Rask of Treve, had been tender with a slave, particularly such a low and miserable slave as I. |
10 |
| 16 | 490 |
It was Rask of Treve! I was not displeased that I had been chained under the moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 17 | 13 |
I would never forget the face, nor the touch, of Rask of Treve, nor the long walks, and the speakings, and touchings, beyond the palisade. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
In the beginning, following my total conquest by Rask of Treve, I had been summoned night after night to his tent. |
10 |
| 17 | 25 |
And then I, to the anger of some of the other girls, was the acknowledged favorite of Rask of Treve, only an Earth girl, but his preferred slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 38 |
"I see you have caught two pretty birds," had laughed Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 58 |
I had sought to please Rask of Treve in many ways, and found, to my astonishment, that I was eager to do so, and took great pleasure in doing so. |
10 |
| 17 | 61 |
I became many women to Rask of Treve, fresh females, yet again El-in-or. |
10 |
| 17 | 63 |
But, too, sometimes Rask of Treve, after touching me, would hold me, and kiss me, for long hours. |
10 |
| 17 | 68 |
And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons. |
10 |
| 17 | 87 |
Rask of Treve was struggling with himself, castigating himself, denouncing himself, I think, fighting not to care for me, a mere slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 161 |
I did not doubt, of course, but what Rask of Treve would keep me in a collar. |
10 |
| 17 | 165 |
And for such a slave, I am sure, there was no place in the war camp of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 167 |
For what place could there be for this other thing in the war camp of Rask of Treve? But mostly we sported and pleasured, hiding from ourselves this other thing, both of us perhaps not wishing to speak it. |
10 |
| 17 | 186 |
I had asked one thing of Rask of Treve, before, stripped, I had entered the tarn basket. |
10 |
| 17 | 196 |
I was no longer the slave of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 223 |
But none of them were Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 256 |
Then he said to me, "I am of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 258 |
By the hair I was dragged from the presence of Rask of Treve, and his head, again, fell forward on his chest. |
10 |
| 17 | 262 |
Rask of Treve must not die! He must not die! "You will be placed in the house of Bosk, a merchant of Port Kar," he said. |
10 |
| 17 | 265 |
"I cannot kill!" "Then Rask of Treve dies," said the small man. |
10 |
| 17 | 280 |
Tellius, the kitchen master of the house of Bosk, drunken, in a dicing match, in a paga tavern of Port Kar, had learned that there was an interesting girl, newly brought to the house of Samos, one who had been trained in the pens of Ko-ro-ba, one who wore the brand of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 316 |
Rask of Treve must live! I had recalled how Haakon of Skjern had laughed over his captive. |
10 |
| 17 | 317 |
I asked myself, would he, Haakon, such a mortal enemy, release Rask of Treve, even did I keep my bargain? I feared he would not, and yet what choice had I. |
10 |
| 17 | 352 |
No, Rask of Treve would not purchase his life for the price I had agreed to pay, but the decision was not his, but mine, mine, and I loved him, and could not let him die! "Do not stain my honor," he had said. |
10 |
| 17 | 388 |
"We could not save Rask of Treve," said Bosk to me the next day. |
10 |
| 17 | 394 |
"Those of Treve," he said, "are worthy foes". |
10 |
| 17 | 407 |
The sign of Treve was cut into each of the stakes". |
10 |
| 17 | 409 |
"Those of Treve," mused Bosk, as though he might have known them as enemies, "are worthy foes". |
10 |
| 17 | 411 |
"I am letting it be known in the camp of Terence of Treve, a mercenary, that there is, in my house, a wench, whose name is Elinor". |
10 |
| 17 | 412 |
"Rask of Treve no longer wants me. |
10 |
| 17 | 415 |
"I am informed by Samos, who keeps spies, that Rask of Treve came free to Port Kar, and alone, where he was captured". |
10 |
| 17 | 419 |
"That cannot be," I said, "for when I was brought to Port Kar, Rask of Treve was already captive". |
10 |
| 17 | 420 |
"It could easily be," said he called Bosk, "for it requires only that some rumor be spread, say, in Ar, or elsewhere, that you are in this city, a rumor which well might, by means of spies, soon find its way to the camp of Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 17 | 421 |
And surely it would be preferable, to the plans of some, my enemies, that you not be in this city when Rask of Treve arrives, lest they fail to capture him and he finds you, and carries you away". |
10 |
| 17 | 433 |
"It is my speculation," said Bosk, "that only when Rask of Treve fell captive were you then picked up and brought to Port Kar, where you might be confronted with him". |
10 |
| 17 | 434 |
"Rask of Treve," I said, "sold me. |
10 |
| 17 | 445 |
I sang at my work, for I knew that Rask of Treve lived. |
10 |
| 17 | 448 |
I did not believe that my master, Bosk, was correct in his conjectures that the warrior of Treve had come to Port Kar to find me, for he had sold me. |
10 |
| 17 | 450 |
I tried, from time to time, to put Rask of Treve from my mind, but I could not do so. |
10 |
| 17 | 452 |
Rask of Treve did not want me. |
10 |
| 17 | 471 |
I have learned that Rask of Treve did indeed come to Port Kar to find me, and this has given me indescribable joy, though it is mingled now with great bitterness, and sadness, for I shall never again be his. |
10 |
| 17 | 472 |
On the piazza, before the Hall of the Council of Captains, Rask of Treve confronted Bosk of Port Kar, demanding that I be surrendered to him. |
10 |
| 17 | 484 |
When Rask of Treve demanded that I be given to him, Bosk, my master, first sword in Port Kar, drew his own blade and, for answer, drew on the tiles of the piazza a sign, that of the city of Ko-ro-ba. |
10 |
| 17 | 485 |
Rask of Treve, cloak swirling, turned and strode away. |
10 |
| 17 | 494 |
I remember Rask of Treve. |
10 |
| 18 | 21 |
In this I think I see the hand of Rask of Treve, or perhaps even of Verna, a most unusual woman, herself. |
10 |
| 18 | 27 |
How could she, a Ubar's daughter, hold up her head, when once she has worn the collar of a warrior of Treve. |
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| 18 | 108 |
Each bore the sign of the city of Treve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 86 |
Rask of Treve, though in love with her and she with him, would keep her rightless, in the absolute bondage of a Gorean slave girl—for he was of Treve. |
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| 1 | 66 |
"That El-in-or," he asked, "who is now the property of Rask of Treve?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 1 | 70 |
"Doubtless, for such a price," he said, "Rask of Treve will see that she repays him a thousand times that price in pleasure". |
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| 1 | 83 |
"Love or not," said Samos, studying the board, "he will keep her in a collar—for he is of Treve". |
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| 1 | 87 |
"It is said that those of Treve are worthy enemies," said Samos. |
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| 2 | 430 |
She now belonged to Rask of Treve. |
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| 10 | 171 |
"There are no traitors now among my men, no spies from Treve. |
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| 14 | 130 |
Some cities, Treve, for example, have their own brands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 37 |
"Raiders from Treve," said a man with a bandaged shoulder, in one of the wagons. |
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| 12 | 458 |
"I am Rask," he said, "of the caste of warriors, of the city of Treve". |
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| 12 | 602 |
It was he called Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 638 |
"It is the sign of Treve," he said. |
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| 12 | 674 |
"It is with these devices," said the man, holding up the tiny leaf, with its wire, sign and printing, "that we of Treve, in our various ventures of raiding, mark our booty". |
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| 12 | 697 |
I looked up at Rask of Treve reproachfully. |
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| 12 | 747 |
"To your saddle, Lieutenant," grinned Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 753 |
Rask of Treve lifted his hand to him, in a salute of warriors. |
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| 12 | 756 |
Then Rask of Treve looked about himself, making swift inspection of his men and tarns, and their burdens, riches and slave girls. |
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| 12 | 772 |
I knew who had taken me, who had imperiously thrust the wire of his claiming leaf through the lobe of my left ear, then twisting it shut, tagging me as his property, he, Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 801 |
And I knew that I, too, kneeling there in the crowded darkness, as Rask of Treve had called to my attention, was booty, only that, and so, too, of course, were the others. |
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| 12 | 855 |
"Ho!" cried Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 862 |
"Ho!" cried the men of Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 866 |
"Ho!" cried Rask of Treve. |
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| 12 | 869 |
Rask of Treve's tarn smote the air with its mighty wings. |
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| 12 | 879 |
I wondered how many slave girls, helpless and bound, a tiny silver leaf dangling from their ear, had been carried by the men of Treve in this basket, and how many more in the future would find themselves its captive. |
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| 13 | 19 |
No longer did I wear in my left ear the silver leaf, identifying me as a catch of Rask, a warrior and raider of the city of Treve. |
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| 13 | 24 |
I brought Rask of Treve, my captor, fifteen copper tarsks. |
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| 13 | 27 |
On another ledger, one kept by one of Rask's men, this figure was also entered, with a sign following it, indicating him to whose private account the amount was to be credited, he who had taken me, Rask, the warrior of Treve. |
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| 13 | 29 |
The silver leaf was then returned to him who kept the ledger for Rask of Treve, and he dropped the leaf, with others, into a nearby box. |
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| 13 | 269 |
I knew I had been sold by Rask of Treve to a slaver for fifteen copper tarsks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 930 |
She was now well owned, as I understood it, by a tarnsman of Treve, one named Rask. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 574 |
Her left thigh would still bear the brand of Treve, for once, long ago, she had fallen slave to Rask of Treve, a captain and tarnsman. |
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| 4 | 739 |
"I have five brands," said the metal worker, "the common Kajira brand, the Dina, the Palm, the mark of Treve, the mark of Port Kar". |
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| 13 | 577 |
I thought the brand of Port Kar might look well upon her body, placed above that of Treve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 213 |
"Is it such men as Terence of Treve or Ha-Keel, once of Ar?" These were two well-known mercenary captains. |
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| 21 | 225 |
Terence, being of Treve, would not be eager to ride against Ar. |
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| 21 | 227 |
Several years ago I knew there had been war between Ar and Treve. |
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| 21 | 228 |
The tarnsmen of Treve, over the snow-capped crags of the scarlet Voltai range, had turned back the squadrons of Ar. |
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| 21 | 230 |
Ar had never forgotten that she had been checked in the Voltai, nor had Treve forgotten the cost of having done so. |
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| 21 | 233 |
Men of Treve commonly disdain to conceal their identity. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 82 |
Once she had been owned by Rask of Treve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 966 |
"Tarnsmen from Treve have raided the outskirts of Ar," said Samos. |
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| 22 | 230 |
He is, as I understand it, in the Voltai, concerned with a punitive expedition against Treve". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 373 |
He was supposedly on an expedition into the Voltai, conducting a punitive expedition against raiders of Treve. |
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| 21 | 97 |
"On a punitive expedition against Treve". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 320 |
Marlenus of Ar had vanished months ago on a punitive raid in the Voltai, directed against the tarnsmen of Treve. |
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| 5 | 66 |
"I, too, have heard it said," I said, "that Talena was once a slave, and I have heard it said, as well, that even now she wears on her thigh the mark of Treve, a souvenir of her former bondage to a tarnsman of that city". |
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| 27 | 987 |
"Once, I know, you were owned by Rask of Treve". |
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| 27 | 990 |
"He put me often in slave silk, and jewelry, to show me off," she said, "as it amused him, he, of Treve, to have the daughter of Marlenus of Ar for a slave, but he did not make much use of me. |
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| 27 | 996 |
"It is difficult to believe that Rask of Treve did not put you to slave use," I said. |
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| 27 | 1003 |
I had twice met Rask of Treve, both times in Port Kar. |
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| 27 | 1012 |
"That would seem to have been an oversight on the part of Rask of Treve," I said. |
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| 27 | 1056 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" "Rask of Treve, I gather," I said, "refrained from igniting the slave fires in your belly?" "He preferred me, it seems," she said, angrily, "as the cool, reserved, distressed daughter of a Ubar, something dignified to be displayed, and worked, rather as a trophy". |
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| 28 | 69 |
Long ago, when she had been the slave of Rask of Treve, she had been, I gathered, treated as something rather special, kept less as a slave than as a free woman kept, for his amusement, in the shame of slave garb. |
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| 28 | 112 |
I wondered, too, of Marlenus of Ar, doubtless slain in the Voltai range, in his punitive raid against Treve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 26 |
"Know that these women are the property of the state of Treve! You are within the walls of Treve. |
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| 7 | 556 |
"Have you ever been to the city of Treve?" he asked. |
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| 7 | 889 |
Why did he ask me if I were "Janice," or had ever known a slave named "Janice," or if I had ever been in Treve? I had, of course, responded negatively, as I had been instructed to do. |
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| 19 | 905 |
"I am in Treve!" she cried. |
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| 19 | 906 |
"I am in Treve!" I smiled. |
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| 19 | 1015 |
It was a young, blond raider of Treve who captured me. |
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| 22 | 10 |
"So, now," he said, "you know you are in Treve?" "Yes, Master," I whispered. |
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| 24 | 168 |
"See! The banners! The banners of Treve!" There was a cheer from those on the terrace. |
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| 24 | 217 |
But what if the tarnsmen of Treve, those in the vicinity, were in pursuit of the first flight? What if it had drawn them away? Could they hear the alarm bars behind them, in the city? Could they be recalled? Could a messenger catch up with them? How much time would it take to do so, and then return?... |
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| 24 | 274 |
Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro... |
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| 24 | 339 |
Had such a thing been done by the men of Treve in their city? Perhaps. |
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| 24 | 341 |
The motivations of the men of Treve, as I understood them, were predominantly economic. |
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| 24 | 344 |
Women, from the point of view of the men of Treve, and from the point of view of most of the men on this world, as I understand it, are to be seen in terms of other purposes. |
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| 24 | 415 |
Men of Treve, now, in force, I thought, had come to the bridge. |
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| 24 | 472 |
In what seemed a breath later I saw guardsmen of Treve, swords drawn, burst onto the terrace, come, too, doubtless from the bridge. |
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| 24 | 477 |
Guardsmen of Treve raced across the terrace, from the left, trying to cut off the retreat of the intruders. |
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| 24 | 482 |
Tarns of Treve flew overhead. |
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| 24 | 900 |
In the case of the Lady Constanzia, as she was a free woman, her disposition was, I supposed, in the hands of certain officials of Treve. |
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| 28 | 32 |
"Her fingerprints tally with those taken shortly after her delivery to Treve by the abductors". |
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| 28 | 47 |
"The court of the commercial praetor of the high city of Treve," said the praetor's officer, "accepts the prisoner as the Lady Constanzia of Besnit". |
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| 28 | 49 |
"You are now within the custody of the court of the commercial praetor of Treve," said the officer. |
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| 28 | 81 |
"It was kept on me until I came to this city, which I now learn, by your words, is Treve," she said. |
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| 28 | 142 |
Here she will be delivered into the hands not of an agent of the house of William but into the hands of one of that house itself, the youngest and least of that house, who has come to Treve for this purpose, to acquire her, to whom she is to be given as a slave". |
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| 29 | 50 |
Its engraving was probably no more than some simple legend, such as "If found, return me to the pens of Treve". |
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| 29 | 107 |
I belonged to the state of Treve. |
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| 29 | 143 |
And then, wonder of wonders, it came to our attention, as such things may, that the Lady Constanzia, lured like a vulo, and trapped by her greed, was now a capture prize, being held in Treve for ransom. |
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| 29 | 165 |
Indeed, it is in accord with the provisions of that oath I am come to Treve, to fetch you to Harfax. |
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| 29 | 242 |
But I must conduct my business! I must ransom the slut, Constanzia of Besnit! I must sign the letters of credit to the state of Treve to redeem her, rather than use them to negotiate for she who is to me beyond compare, who is to me above all others. |
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| 29 | 308 |
She had desperately desired to learn how to be more pleasing to a certain visitor to Treve. |
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| 29 | 408 |
So may you learn, new slave, what it is to be owned! So let it be told at the fairs, let it be remembered in the annals of the Merchants, that she who was once the proud Lady Constanzia of Besnit, who defrauded and nearly brought to ruin the house of William, in Harfax, was led through the streets o... |
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| 29 | 671 |
It had been obvious, for some time, that she wanted desperately to submit herself to the mysterious visitor to Treve, to submit herself in the most perfect and complete way a woman can submit herself to a man, to be his ardent, devoted, helpless pleasure slave. |
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| 30 | 42 |
"If he is taken from us," said the officer, "Treve loses a counter of inestimable value". |
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| 31 | 28 |
You cannot deal with the property of Treve with impunity". |
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| 31 | 36 |
The officer of Treve had left the quarters of the pit master shortly after the arrival of the strangers, putatively to ensure that new papers would be properly prepared, that there would be no further difficulty in the documents, supposedly of transfer or extradition. |
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| 31 | 88 |
I had seen nothing of the officer of Treve this morning. |
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| 31 | 203 |
"These sleen of Treve would have managed that". |
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| 31 | 275 |
"He whom we seek surely could not be confessedly in Treve," laughed the leader of the black-tunicked men. |
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| 31 | 283 |
The figure of the officer of Treve appeared in the doorway, he whom I knew well, and he who had, in the manner of these men, known me well, and as a slave. |
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| 31 | 309 |
"I am reluctant to permit this," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 342 |
The leader of the black-tunicked men looked to the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 344 |
"Stand aside," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 359 |
"Stand aside!" said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 367 |
"Do not lift your bows," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 372 |
"The first man to lift a bow dies," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 375 |
"You are a captain," said the leader of the strangers to the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 456 |
"Spare the pit master or die!" cried the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 462 |
"Remain where you are," cautioned the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 465 |
"Remain where you are," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 468 |
"You have no objection, I trust," said the leader of the strangers to the officer of Treve, "to the simple removal of your disobedient subordinate from the line of fire?" "If he is unharmed," said the officer. |
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| 31 | 480 |
The officer of Treve stepped back. |
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| 31 | 483 |
"No," said the officer of Treve. |
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| 31 | 491 |
The officer from Treve observed this, and did not observe the sign that was given by the leader of the black-tunicked men. |
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| 31 | 564 |
The officer of Treve stood quietly, angrily, to the side, restrained by two men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 101 |
For example, if those of Ar visit Treve, the banquet will almost certainly be served by stripped women once of Ar, now in the collar of Trevan masters, which courtesy is returned, of course, should those of Treve visit Ar, where the free men of Treve will be served by stripped women once of Treve, n... |
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