| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 196 |
"Can you pay?" "You have lured me here," cried out the Lady Melpomene to the Lady Florence, "away from Vonda, beyond the shelter of her walls!" "The walls of Vonda," said the prefect sternly, "would no longer afford you protection, for your debt, in its plenitude, is now owed to one who is a citizen... |
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| 13 | 30 |
The villa of the Lady Florence of Vonda lay some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda. |
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| 17 | 145 |
"Lady Melpomene of Vonda will win, and then will be again one of the richest women in Vonda. |
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| 17 | 203 |
"Thus," she laughed, "I, the Lady Melpomene of Vonda, take the silk slave of my enemy, the despicable Lady Florence of Vonda!" I looked up at her, shuddering. |
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| 20 | 104 |
"The stables of the Lady Florence of Vonda will await him!" I had beaten the champion of the stables of Miles of Vonda two weeks ago. |
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| 20 | 138 |
"May I present, Kenneth," said the Lady Florence of Vonda, "my dear friend, the Lady Melpomene of Vonda". |
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| 25 | 14 |
"Is Gort not the champion of the stables of Miles of Vonda?" "Here," cried one of the referee's men, pointing to me, "is Jason, champion of the stables of the Lady Florence of Vonda!" There was a cheer at this. |
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| 27 | 316 |
Miles of Vonda had been one of several unsuccessful suitors for the hand of the proud Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 13 | 29 |
"We left our house in Vonda a month ago, for my villa". |
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| 13 | 31 |
Vonda was one of the four cities of the Salerian Confederation. |
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| 13 | 34 |
Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk; downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates and the protection of inland shipping; later, downriver from Port Olni, Vonda, and Lara, lying at the juncti... |
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| 13 | 36 |
The oaths of the league, and the primitive articles pertaining to its first governance, were sworn, and signed, in the meadow of Salerius, which lies on the northern bank of the Olni between Port Olni and Vonda. |
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| 13 | 44 |
The meadow of Salerius, thus, lies on the northern bank of the Olni, between Port Olni and Vonda; the area called Saleria, on the other hand, is, in effect, the lands controlled by the confederation. |
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| 13 | 45 |
Ti, Port Olni and Vonda lie on the northern bank of the Olni; Lara lies between the Olni and the Vosk, at their confluence. |
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| 13 | 71 |
"There was talk in the baths at Vonda," said the Lady Melpomene. |
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| 13 | 76 |
"If hostilities should break out," said the Lady Melpomene, "it might not be well to be a woman of Vonda caught in this city". |
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| 13 | 113 |
The Lady Florence of Vonda, she to whom I belonged, could give or assign me, as any slave she owned, to whomsoever she pleased. |
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| 13 | 115 |
Sometimes when there were guests at her villa southwest of Vonda I was kept locked in my kennel. |
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| 13 | 186 |
Her stables were among the most extensive and finest of any owned by a citizen of Vonda. |
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| 13 | 269 |
It read, I had been told, 'I am the property of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 13 | 317 |
It read, I had been told, 'I am the property of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 13 | 322 |
The Lady Florence, of course, if I were identified as her slave, would by my collar presumably be recognized as a citizeness of Vonda, one of the cities of the confederation. |
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| 13 | 328 |
Too, of course, it would not be well to be a woman of Ar in Vonda, should hostilities break out. |
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| 13 | 564 |
"I was trained in the House of Andronicus," she said, "and sold in Vonda". |
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| 13 | 568 |
That is also in Vonda". |
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| 13 | 594 |
"My Mistress is the Lady Florence of Vonda," I said. |
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| 13 | 646 |
"The Lady Florence of Vonda is my mistress, Master," I said. |
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| 13 | 758 |
He does business in Vonda". |
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| 13 | 782 |
I now knew who owned her, Oneander of Ar, a merchant who apparently did business in Vonda. |
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| 13 | 783 |
It would have been in Vonda, I supposed, that he had purchased her. |
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| 16 | 162 |
It read, I had been told, 'I am the property of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 16 | 281 |
"You are Jason," he asked, "the slave of the Lady Florence of Vonda?" He was looking at the note, extracted from the sack. |
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| 16 | 332 |
"I am Jason, slave to the Lady Florence of Vonda," I said. |
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| 17 | 18 |
"I am the Lady Melpomene of Vonda," she said. |
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| 17 | 57 |
The two families, of which these two young women were scions, were ancient rivals in Vonda. |
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| 17 | 59 |
Indeed, most of the members of the family of Lady Melpomene had left Vonda over the years. |
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| 17 | 60 |
She, of that family, had remained in Vonda, reigning over the shreds of what had once been a considerable number of assets. |
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| 17 | 127 |
"Mistress has," I said, "a house in Vonda. |
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| 17 | 133 |
I will become again one of the richest women in Vonda". |
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| 18 | 24 |
"Stop!" It had been the voice of Kenneth, the head keeper of my mistress' slaves, the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 18 | 50 |
"When we return to your villa near Vonda," he asked, "is the slave to be returned to the house or is it your intention that he serve there, as well as here, in the stables, not your private stables but the great stables?" The Lady Florence owned more than a thousand tharlarion. |
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| 18 | 51 |
She bred and raised tharlarion, and her stables were among the finest in the vicinity of Vonda. |
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| 18 | 66 |
"'My sweet friend and compatriot, Lady Florence of Vonda,'" read Kenneth, "'thank you very much for the use of your lovely silk slave, Jason. |
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| 18 | 73 |
Melpomene, Lady of Vonda. |
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| 18 | 138 |
She could be quite thorough, my mistress, the lofty Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 18 | 164 |
We did not, in the great stables, raise saddle tharlarion, though in the house stables, here in the mistress' villa, some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda, there were several saddle tharlarion. |
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| 18 | 167 |
The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, incidentally, I had heard, for such stories reach even the stables, had fared badly in the tharlarion races in Venna. |
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| 18 | 177 |
She resided now in Vonda, in a tiny, dingy holding, where she, as a citizeness of that city, would have, at least against foreign creditors, the protection of its Home Stone. |
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| 18 | 178 |
The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, impoverished, ruined, had little now to pride herself on save the name of her family and the splendor of her lineage. |
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| 18 | 209 |
On it was the legend 'I belong to the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 19 | 27 |
The stables of the Lady Florence of Vonda had been, as a result of this, particularly in the last four or five years, unusually successful in the stable bouts. |
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| 19 | 286 |
Miles of Vonda, for example, raised hurt as well as tharlarion. |
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| 20 | 102 |
"I shall have a champion who can beat your Jason!" cried Miles of Vonda, from the side of the wall. |
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| 20 | 105 |
It had been that match which had established my precedence among the fighting slaves of the stables in the vicinity of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 107 |
This victory had not set well with Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 108 |
It was not merely that his own champion had been defeated and that he had lost a goodly bit of coin on the wagering involved, but that he had been, in the past, like several other young swains in the vicinity, an unsuccessful suitor in the matter of the companionship, for the hand of the Lady Floren... |
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| 20 | 128 |
"Congratulations, Jason," said the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 140 |
"Jason," said the Lady Florence, "perhaps you remember my good friend, the Lady Melpomene of Vonda, my city". |
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| 21 | 146 |
The pennon of the standard bearer, long and narrow, fluttering back some twenty feet from his spear, was that of Vonda. |
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| 21 | 147 |
Yet Vonda, herself, I knew, did not have tarnsmen. |
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| 21 | 166 |
"There is a party in Vonda which wishes war," said Barus, "but, as I understand it, there is little sympathy elsewhere in the confederation for conflict with Ar". |
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| 21 | 212 |
"Who is the captain of the mercenaries who fly for Vonda?" I asked. |
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| 21 | 215 |
"Vonda does not pay so high," he had smiled. |
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| 21 | 219 |
"Vonda plays with fire," I remarked. |
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| 21 | 224 |
"Even if Vonda were willing to afford such men as Terence or Ha-Keel," said Barus, "it is unlikely they would be willing to take saddle in her behalf. |
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| 21 | 246 |
"You see in that a desire on the part of those in Vonda who favor war with Ar an artifice to provoke a full-scale conflict between Cos and Ar, a conflict in which Cos and the Salerian Confederation would then find themselves natural allies?" Barus looked at me, soberly. |
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| 22 | 8 |
Through the curtain we could hear and see what took place within the lofty hall in the house of the Lady Florence, she of Vonda. |
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| 22 | 22 |
"I lift my wine to the Lady Florence of Vonda!" said the Lady Melpomene. |
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| 22 | 23 |
"We lift our wine to the Lady Florence of Vonda," said the guests. |
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| 22 | 31 |
"I thank you, citizens of Vonda and others, friends, all," said the Lady Florence. |
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| 22 | 34 |
"I lift my cup," said the Lady Florence, "to the beautiful Lady Melpomene of Vonda, who is beautiful enough, I am sure, even to wear the collar of a slave!" There was laughter at this bold toast, and the Lady Melpomene, reddening, smiling, put down her head. |
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| 22 | 36 |
"There are those here who are not of Vonda". |
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| 22 | 53 |
He was from Vonda. |
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| 22 | 56 |
The two ladies, both of Vonda, were Leta and Perimene, both friends of the Ladies Florence and Melpomene. |
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| 22 | 57 |
As free citizens of Vonda they could witness legal transactions. |
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| 22 | 76 |
"Before you Lady Melpomene of Vonda," said Philebus, "lie several papers, detailing the consolidation of your debts. |
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| 22 | 80 |
"And, thanks to my friend, the Lady Florence, she of Vonda," said the Lady Melpomene, "you shall have your payments, and now. |
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| 22 | 84 |
"I herewith publicly sign," said the Lady Melpomene, "this loan note, made out to the Lady Florence of Vonda, for the full sum of one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold". |
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| 22 | 85 |
"And I," said the Lady Florence, "herewith publicly sign this draft, marked in the same amount, drawn on the bank of Reginald in Vonda, and properly certified, made out to Philebus of Venna". |
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| 22 | 99 |
"Let us all, together rejoicing," called out the Lady Melpomene, "prepare to lift our cups to our lovely and generous hostess, she with whom I share a Home Stone, my dearest friend, the Lady Florence of Vonda!" The Lady Melpomene reached for her cup. |
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| 22 | 183 |
The Lady Florence turned to look upon Brandon, who was a prefect in Vonda. |
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| 22 | 195 |
"A demand for payment has been made, Lady Melpomene," said Brandon, a prefect of Vonda. |
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| 22 | 200 |
"No," she cried in misery, "no!" "Kneel, Lady Melpomene, free woman of Vonda," said the prefect. |
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| 22 | 202 |
"Would you rather this be done on the platform of public shame in the great square of Vonda, where you might bring shame upon the Home Stone?" inquired the prefect. |
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| 22 | 226 |
It interested me that Tenalion, a slaver of Ar, was in the vicinity of Vonda. |
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| 22 | 234 |
The former Lady Melpomene of Vonda, now a nameless slave, collapsed to her belly, sobbing, on the scarlet tiles, chained by the neck to a slave ring. |
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| 22 | 238 |
Brandon, though a prefect in Vonda, rose to his feet and carried papers to the Lady Leta and the Lady Perimene. |
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| 22 | 337 |
"I had intended to rent a dancing slave in Vonda," said the Lady Florence to her guests, "a decorous girl in blue silk and a golden collar, who might by the loveliness and grace of her movements please us, but it slipped my mind. |
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| 22 | 362 |
"Oh," cried the Lady Florence, in mock dismay, "I wished to obtain a dancing slave from Vonda, but it slipped my mind, so silly am I, and we have now on hand only poor Melpomene". |
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| 22 | 395 |
And Melpomene, the collared slave, danced, entertaining the guests of her Mistress, the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 22 | 415 |
"To the men!" Sobbing, the slave then danced her beauty to Brandon, a prefect of Vonda. |
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| 22 | 418 |
He grinned and lifted before her eyes the bank draft, drawn on the bank of Reginald in Vonda, certified, and signed by the Lady Florence, for one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold. |
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| 22 | 474 |
Brandon, a prefect of Vonda, and Philebus, the bounty creditor of Venna, seemed troubled. |
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| 22 | 721 |
"I thank you for your supper and for the evening," said Brandon, a prefect of Vonda. |
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| 23 | 74 |
Such a small thing, in its way, bespoke the intimacy of the trade relations between Vonda and Cos. |
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| 23 | 75 |
In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar. |
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| 23 | 111 |
"I belong to the Lady Florence of Vonda, of course," I said to her. |
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| 23 | 113 |
"I do not think the Lady Florence of Vonda would be pleased to hear that," I said. |
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| 24 | 9 |
Taphris, naked, and chained in a slave sack, was now on her way to a market in Vonda. |
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| 24 | 152 |
"In Vonda," she said. |
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| 25 | 1 |
I Fight Krondar, Slave of Miles of Vonda; Tarnsmen The leather slave hood was pulled from my head. |
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| 25 | 28 |
I looked to the tiers and there saw the proud and regal figure of Miles of Vonda. |
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| 25 | 30 |
I recalled that he had once been one of the rejected suitors of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 25 | 36 |
Miles of Vonda gestured to one of the referee's men, and he removed the slave hood from the head of the burly man opposite me, across the sand. |
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| 25 | 39 |
"This," called another of the referee's men, pointing to the burly fellow, whose seconds were now removing the manacles from his wrists, freeing his hands from behind his back, "is Krondar, newly purchased slave to Miles of Vonda, and new champion of his stables!" Krondar struggled, but was held by ... |
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| 25 | 53 |
"Doubtless he has cost Miles of Vonda much," said Barus, rubbing my back. |
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| 25 | 54 |
"Why should Miles of Vonda have purchased such a slave?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 66 |
"Beat and mark his face well, Krondar!" called Miles of Vonda to his slave. |
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| 25 | 149 |
"Even in the stables of Vonda," I said, "there are champions". |
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| 25 | 164 |
In that squarish, hideously scarred countenance of Krondar there was, for a moment, a sudden understanding that though he were now in the vicinity of Vonda he with whom he shared that shallow pit of sand, collared and slave, too, might be one perhaps not unworthy to be called a fighter. |
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| 25 | 184 |
"There are champions in Vonda!" cried a man in the tiers. |
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| 25 | 215 |
I saw that Miles of Vonda had left. |
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| 25 | 256 |
"Infantrymen from Vonda and Ar have engaged north of Venna!" called another man. |
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| 25 | 258 |
"By what right have the men of Vonda intruded so far to the south?" asked a man. |
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| 25 | 280 |
* * * * We had been some two Ahn upon the road, returning to the lands of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 26 | 55 |
"Where are the guardsmen of Vonda?" she asked. |
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| 26 | 56 |
"If any have escaped in the direction of Vonda," I said, "perhaps they may be here tomorrow, by nightfall". |
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| 26 | 89 |
"Today, earlier," I said, "I defeated Krondar, a fighting slave of Ar, purchased by Miles of Vonda". |
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| 26 | 148 |
"I am a free woman! I am the Lady Florence of Vonda! Oh! Oh!" I laughed softly to myself. |
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| 26 | 260 |
Though she were the Lady Florence, a free woman of Vonda, I conducted her beside me as though she might have been a slave girl. |
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| 27 | 263 |
"You are Miles of Vonda, are you not?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 274 |
"Your slave needs discipline," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 27 | 284 |
"Why are you here?" I asked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 27 | 289 |
Miles of Vonda, of course, would not be likely to recognize her, for, hitherto, he would have seen her only in the robes of a free woman and heavily and modestly veiled. |
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| 27 | 290 |
I did not think him likely to identify the lofty Lady Florence, a rich, high-born woman of Vonda, with the scantily-clad, exciting, punished girl who knelt chained as a slut beside me. |
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| 27 | 294 |
"Perhaps safe in Vonda, or in its vicinity," I said. |
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| 27 | 295 |
"Why do you seek her?" "These are hard times," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 27 | 302 |
"She is not here," said Miles of Vonda to his men. |
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| 27 | 303 |
"We shall search elsewhere, in the vicinity, in the brush near the roads leading to Vonda". |
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| 27 | 308 |
"Thank you," said I, "Miles of Vonda". |
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| 27 | 343 |
"What a fool Miles of Vonda is," she said. |
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| 27 | 344 |
"He looked upon me and could not even tell the difference between the Lady Florence of Vonda and a mere slave girl". |
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| 27 | 380 |
"Can you not simply look upon me and see that I am free?" "Perhaps if I saw you in the robes of concealment, and veiled, being carried in a palanquin through the streets of Vonda by slaves," I said, "I would think you free". |
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| 27 | 385 |
"Did you see how Miles of Vonda looked at me?" she asked. |
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| 27 | 390 |
It had indeed been a frank, bemused scrutiny to which Miles of Vonda had subjected the lofty Lady Florence, the sort of scrutiny commonly reserved for, and accorded to, slaves. |
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| 27 | 399 |
"Miles of Vonda is a fool!" she snapped. |
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| 29 | 26 |
"You are not going toward Vonda," she said. |
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| 29 | 34 |
"But I am of Vonda," she said. |
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| 29 | 53 |
Given the times I do not think it a coincidence that Tenalion of Ar was recently in the vicinity of Vonda. |
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| 29 | 63 |
"As well you might, female of Vonda," I said. |
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| 29 | 73 |
"But for what reason, Jason," she begged, "for what possible reason?" "He knows you," I said, "and he is familiar with various matters known in Vonda and within her vicinity. |
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| 29 | 74 |
He will know, for example, that you have been much sought as a Free Companion by rich young swains of Vonda, but that you have held yourself too good for them, and have refused them all". |
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| 29 | 94 |
"Return me to Vonda," she said. |
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| 32 | 76 |
I thought that perhaps it was time to teach the Lady Florence of Vonda something of slave needs. |
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| 32 | 100 |
There she was, before me, naked, kneeling, tethered, leashed, as stripped, and helpless, as the most meaningless of slaves, my former mistress, the lofty, wealthy, imperious, beautiful Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 32 | 159 |
I regarded the Lady Florence of Vonda, now reduced to a helpless, squirming wench. |
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| 32 | 196 |
Again I heard the Lady Florence of Vonda moan, this time softly to herself, and I heard the catch of a sob in her throat. |
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| 33 | 58 |
"Yes," she said, bitterly, "because men of Vonda, spurned suitors, will pay high for me". |
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| 34 | 132 |
"I am the Lady Florence of Vonda," she said. |
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| 34 | 252 |
"They were sold in the neighborhood of Vonda several days ago". |
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| 34 | 258 |
He had many dealings with Vonda. |
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| 34 | 274 |
"She who came in chains from some market in Vonda?" asked another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 140 |
Doubtless the young men of Vonda, and the estates about Vonda, who would attend her secret auction might wear masks. |
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| 4 | 672 |
I am the Lady Tendite of Vonda!" "Do all the women of Vonda run about the streets half naked, clad in the rag of a slave, wearing collars?" asked the leader. |
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| 27 | 3 |
I had been thinking of Miles of Vonda and the slave he owned, who had once been the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 1 | 24 |
"The barbarian, the small, dark-haired one, she brought from Vonda, she sold out of the house of Andronicus?" "It is you!" she said, suddenly, recognizing me. |
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| 1 | 59 |
"There has been a major engagement, one long awaited," said the man next to me, "south of Vonda. |
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| 1 | 86 |
"Vonda herself now lies open to our troops!' I nodded. |
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| 1 | 90 |
"The women of Vonda will soon be emptied into our slave markets," said the man. |
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| 1 | 92 |
"I have heard," said another, "that forces from Port Olni are marching to the relief of Vonda". |
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| 1 | 237 |
Similarly at that time hostilities with confederation cities had been limited to skirmishes with Vonda. |
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| 1 | 240 |
Being denied the markets of Vonda, and perhaps of Port Olni and Ti, it was natural, I supposed, for Oneander to turn to Lara. |
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| 2 | 8 |
"Tarnsmen of Ar," had said he, "patrol the corridor between Vonda and Ar, but are insufficient in numbers to guard the sky beyond the corridor. |
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| 2 | 11 |
On his return trip he would doubtless take refugees, or perhaps bound girls from Vonda, back to Ar. |
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| 2 | 14 |
"We have been successful here," he said, "defeating in battle both the forces of Vonda and those of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus of Cos. |
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| 2 | 15 |
Vonda is being sacked. |
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| 2 | 30 |
Defeating them we will return south to meet the forces of Lara, perhaps even here, in the sight of the ashes of Vonda". |
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| 2 | 34 |
It had, to date, refused to involve itself in the machinations of Vonda and Cos. |
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| 2 | 39 |
"Those of Cos, enemies to Ar, and merchants of Vonda," said the man, "have precipitated the war, hoping to engage the entire confederation". |
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| 2 | 66 |
"Did many of those of Vonda escape the city?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 111 |
"She fled early from Vonda," she said. |
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| 2 | 121 |
Too, is it not a rich joke for the men of Ar that more than a thousand of the free women of Vonda adorn their pleasure racks, fastened down like slave girls, their use available for a tarsk bit to the passers-by?" "Yes," I smiled, "it is a rich joke". |
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| 2 | 145 |
To be sure not all the pleasure racks were as sophisticated as that on which was bound my former Mistress, the former female slaver, the Lady Tima of Vonda. |
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| 2 | 146 |
This device, like some of the others, had doubtless been brought from the city, perhaps dragged forth by shackled men of Vonda hauling on wagon ropes. |
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| 3 | 248 |
"Are you going to be had, Lady of Vonda?" he inquired. |
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| 3 | 255 |
Say 'I am a woman of Vonda and I beg to be had by a man of Ar. |
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| 3 | 257 |
"Say," said he, "'The women of Vonda are no more than sluts and slaves to the men of Ar. |
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| 3 | 259 |
"And that you are a woman of Vonda". |
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| 3 | 260 |
"And I am a woman of Vonda," she said. |
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| 3 | 282 |
"Yes, Master!" I left the two together, and began to thread my way through the tables, between the soldiers and merchants, and others, and the stripped, shackled women of Vonda, serving as waitresses, toward the opening in the food tent. |
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| 3 | 285 |
"By that time they will find here only the ashes of Vonda," laughed another. |
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| 3 | 286 |
As I accidentally brushed against a woman of Vonda she trembled, and put down her head, and knelt swiftly. |
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| 3 | 297 |
It did not, I gathered, pertain to the women of Vonda. |
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| 4 | 22 |
It was crowded with refugees from Vonda. |
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| 4 | 23 |
Many hundreds had fled from Vonda, and most had taken the river southward, paying highly for their fares on the varieties of river craft, barges, skiffs, river galleys, and even coracles, which had brought them to Lara. |
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| 4 | 27 |
"I am a free woman of Vonda!" the woman at the counter was crying. |
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| 4 | 41 |
"I am a free woman of Vonda!" the woman at the counter was crying. |
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| 4 | 42 |
"You cannot put me out!" Oneander of Ar, the salt and leather merchant, and some others, had worn masks at the loot camp outside the city of Vonda. |
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| 4 | 50 |
The sky to the west was lit with the flames of Vonda. |
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| 4 | 106 |
"I am a free woman of Vonda!" the woman at the counter had been crying out last night. |
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| 4 | 127 |
"I am a free woman of Vonda," she said, "a member of the Confederation". |
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| 4 | 137 |
Others, perhaps, shamed by the fall of Vonda, or the necessity for their flight from the city, did not wish to be recognized in Lara. |
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| 4 | 143 |
In Lara there were many refugees from Vonda and its vicinity. |
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| 4 | 169 |
It lay well within the striking distance of a tarn cavalry, such as that which had been employed so devastatingly on the fields and hills south of Vonda. |
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| 4 | 355 |
"Vonda," I said. |
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| 4 | 486 |
I myself had received some instruction in these matters from Kenneth, who had been my trainer and friend, when I had been slave in the stables of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 4 | 510 |
"From Vonda," I said. |
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| 4 | 511 |
"You were assistant to the Lady Tima of Vonda, a slaver of that city, of the house of Tima". |
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| 4 | 650 |
"I am the Lady Tendite, a free woman of Vonda!" One of the men then was drawing her hands behind her back. |
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| 4 | 684 |
"We shall be returning to our loot camp shortly, which is east of Vonda. |
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| 4 | 685 |
There you will discover that the women of Vonda are not entirely unknown to us. |
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| 5 | 60 |
My financial resources, the ten silver tarsks, obtained from the sale of my former Mistress, the Lady Florence of Vonda, to the slaver, Tenalion of Ar, had been severely depleted. |
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| 6 | 19 |
Indeed, perhaps surprisingly, they had done little but clear the town of river pirates and, here and there, gather in a bit of loot and some women, mostly female refugees from Vonda who fell into their hands. |
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| 6 | 20 |
Their action, however, the strike to Lara, had caused considerable consternation among the forces of Lara, marching toward Vonda. |
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| 6 | 22 |
They were not, thus, involved in the action which took place shortly afterward northeast of Vonda. |
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| 6 | 30 |
The readings on these auspices had been challenged only by haruspexes of Vonda and Cos. |
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| 6 | 32 |
Vonda, it was clearly understood, conspiring with Cos, had initiated hostilities. |
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| 6 | 33 |
In burning and sacking Vonda Ar had, for most practical purposes, satisfied its sense of military propriety. |
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| 6 | 40 |
I think there is little doubt that the cessation of hostilities in the north was in no little part a function of the generosity of the men of Ar, a not impolitic generosity in my opinion, in sparing Lara the fate of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 103 |
"Were you brought to the House of Andronicus, in Vonda?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 105 |
I was sold in Vonda to a taverner in Tancred's Landing. |
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| 24 | 320 |
"I was taken to the House of Andronicus, in Vonda," she said. |
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| 26 | 1 |
Florence; Miles of Vonda "Florence!" I said. |
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| 26 | 64 |
"So the proud Lady Florence of Vonda is now a mere pleasure slave". |
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| 26 | 75 |
"Miles of Vonda," she said. |
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| 26 | 85 |
"Not to Miles of Vonda," I smiled. |
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| 26 | 115 |
"I love Miles of Vonda!" "With the love of a free companion?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 137 |
"How is Miles of Vonda?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 178 |
"If it were not for you," she said, "I might never have come into the possession of my master, Miles of Vonda". |
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| 26 | 192 |
Once near Vonda we fought". |
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| 26 | 206 |
Miles of Vonda, angry, stood there, his sword drawn. |
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| 26 | 209 |
Miles of Vonda, sword ready, advanced a step. |
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| 26 | 210 |
"In the tavern," said Miles of Vonda, "was it not you who accosted my slave?" "I spoke with her," I said. |
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| 26 | 220 |
"Will it be necessary to slay you with your sword in your sheath?" inquired Miles of Vonda. |
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| 26 | 227 |
"Draw your weapon," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 26 | 229 |
One of them had muttered something angrily, when Miles of Vonda had spoken as he had. |
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| 26 | 237 |
"Draw," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 26 | 238 |
I do not think Miles of Vonda knew the danger he was in. |
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| 26 | 241 |
"It is my hope that I am so," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 26 | 246 |
"How then, as I am a worker on the docks, could I have had the leisure to develop skills with the blade which might be the match of yours?" Angrily Miles of Vonda thrust his sword back in its sheath. |
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| 26 | 256 |
"I shall not kill you," said Miles of Vonda, irritably. |
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| 26 | 259 |
Miles of Vonda, although he did not know it, had just saved his own life, and that of Krondar, and possibly that of the slave. |
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| 26 | 262 |
"Krondar," said Miles of Vonda, indicating me, "beat him". |
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| 26 | 264 |
"How then," asked Miles of Vonda, looking at me, "is my honor in this matter to be satisfied?" "I do not know," I said. |
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| 26 | 271 |
Miles of Vonda then turned about and, gesturing to Krondar to shoulder the burdens he had been guarding, left, walking down the avenue of Lycurgus, followed by Florence, and then later, a few feet behind, by Krondar, bearing his gear. |
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| 27 | 11 |
"So you have followed me, Miles of Vonda," I said. |
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| 27 | 20 |
"You are not Miles of Vonda," I said. |
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| 27 | 122 |
Originally I had taken him to be Miles of Vonda. |
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| 28 | 99 |
There, in full Gorean legality, she had been again enslaved, as, months before, she had been in the House of Andronicus, in Vonda, when first she had been brought to Gor as a helpless Earth girl, to be branded and collared, and sold to Gorean brutes for their pleasure. |
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| 32 | 48 |
It was she who had once been the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 32 | 49 |
I knew her now, of course, as Florence, who was, or had been, the slave of Miles of Vonda. |
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| 32 | 64 |
"My Master, Miles of Vonda, took ship from Victoria, in the Flower of Siba". |
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| 32 | 70 |
Miles of Vonda, in my opinion, had been rash. |
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| 32 | 72 |
She would, doubtless, in turn, have conveyed these reservations to Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 1 |
Miles of Vonda and I Observe Slaves, Utilizing the Screened Balcony Above the Central Slave Quarters "Would you care to join me, my friend, Miles of Vonda?" I asked. |
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| 20 | 1209 |
Miles of Vonda left first, heeled by his curvaceous, auburn-haired beauty, Florence, once, too, of Vonda. |
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| 8 | 135 |
Part of that loot had been Florence, a curvaceous, auburn-haired slave, who had belonged to Miles of Vonda. |
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| 9 | 246 |
My longest slavery was in Vonda, in a slaver's house, the House of Andronicus". |
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| 9 | 458 |
"Krondar, the fighting slave," I said, "and Miles, of Vonda". |
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| 10 | 39 |
On the stem castle of the Tuka stood Miles of Vonda, one who was not of the river towns, and one who was almost certain to be unknown to the denizens of the holding. |
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| 10 | 43 |
I did not think that even Sirnak, who was a captain of Policrates, he who, with Reginald, had waylaid the Flower of Siba, should he still be in the holding, would be likely to be able to identify him, to detect in the bearded ruffian on the stem castle of the Tuka the former refugee landowner from V... |
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| 10 | 57 |
I had managed to rescue Miles of Vonda and Krondar, his slave, from the dark, wreckage-strewn water. |
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| 10 | 76 |
Miles of Vonda, on the stem castle of the Tuka, and Kliomenes, on the walls of the holding, exchanged signals. |
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| 10 | 84 |
I could not hear the discourse which took place between Kliomenes and Miles of Vonda, but I knew, and well, its nature. |
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| 10 | 114 |
Miles of Vonda had represented us, of course, as being the advance ships of the Voskjard's fleet. |
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| 10 | 121 |
He was waiting on the broad walk, near the iron door leading within the holding, for Miles of Vonda. |
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| 10 | 146 |
Miles of Vonda made ready to disembark. |
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| 10 | 150 |
With their right hands they reached into the baskets of petals, to cast them on the walk, in the path of Miles of Vonda and of the men disembarking from the Tuka. |
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| 10 | 159 |
Miles of Vonda stepped upon the rail of the Tuka and he, and other men, leaped to the walk. |
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| 10 | 162 |
I saw Kliomenes seizing the hand of Miles of Vonda. |
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| 10 | 175 |
Then the sword of Miles of Vonda was at his throat. |
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| 10 | 176 |
"Order your men to throw down their arms!" said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 10 | 182 |
'Throw down your arms," called Miles of Vonda to the pirates on the walk, "or you are dead men". |
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| 11 | 13 |
Miles of Vonda, I saw, could not take his eyes from one slave. |
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| 11 | 17 |
She had once been the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 19 |
I saw the fists of Miles of Vonda clench. |
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| 11 | 22 |
"You have thus far played a significant and handsome role in our business, Miles of Vonda," I said. |
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| 11 | 24 |
"If I want her," said Miles of Vonda, lightly. |
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| 11 | 29 |
Did Miles of Vonda seek to conceal from me his affection for a mere slave? It was obvious that he cherished that slave. |
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| 11 | 31 |
"It seems that you, too," said Miles of Vonda, looking at me, "find one of these slaves of interest". |
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| 11 | 41 |
"She apparently has a nasty streak in her," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 44 |
"Could you whip her?" asked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 73 |
"How beautiful are slaves," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 105 |
"I count eighty-nine," said Miles of Vonda, "including those two, both yours, whom we brought in at the prows of the Tuka and Tina". |
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| 11 | 107 |
"An exquisite lot," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 126 |
"Excellent," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 129 |
"There is quite a diversity in the garbing of these slaves," remarked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 11 | 133 |
Some, however, had been put in little more than scraps or twists of cloth, or shreds of rags, such as those on the body of the auburn-haired beauty in which Miles of Vonda had seemed to take an interest and on the body of the small, exquisite brunette of whom I had deigned to take note. |
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| 11 | 223 |
Miles of Vonda and I continued to look downward, into the central room of the slave quarters, upon the confined inmates. |
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| 11 | 224 |
"The feast tonight," said Miles of Vonda, "would have been more pleasant, had it been served by these". |
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| 12 | 88 |
These latter girls, such as the auburn-haired beauty in whom Miles of Vonda was interested, and the small brunette in whom I had some interest, were in ignorance as to what their disposition would be. |
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| 13 | 17 |
We had, against the protestations of Miles of Vonda, whom we left in command of the fortress, surrendered ourselves. |
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| 17 | 728 |
This had occurred long ago, when I had been a silk slave, owned by the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
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| 17 | 730 |
She belonged now to Miles of Vonda, who had helped us in our work with the pirates, part of the spoils, as many other slave girls, taken from the holding of Policrates. |
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| 20 | 23 |
Seven men, including myself, were present, Glyco, high merchant of Port Cos; Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria; Aemilianus, leader of the naval forces of Ar upon the Vosk; Calliodorus, captain of the Tais; and my friends, Callimachus and Miles of Vonda, who had brought with him his slave, Florence. |
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| 20 | 26 |
Miles of Vonda had had her trained in these skills. |
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| 20 | 55 |
The lead dancer reminded me somewhat of the slave, Melpomene, who had once been the Lady Melpomene, of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 182 |
I turned to Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 185 |
There I shall arrange a loan and with this money return to Vonda, there to rebuild the burned buildings of my ranch". |
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| 20 | 191 |
"I will keep her on my estates, near Vonda," he said. |
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| 20 | 199 |
The once lofty Lady Florence of Vonda well knew she was now in a collar, as much an animal now as the girls and the tharlarion she had once owned. |
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| 20 | 244 |
She then rose, to serve Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 249 |
"Thank you for the pastry, Master," said Florence to Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 253 |
But, of course, Miles of Vonda and Tasdron, of Victoria, their masters, had given them food from their plates. |
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| 20 | 288 |
She went then, again, to Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 382 |
"Where is Krondar?" I asked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 416 |
"Oh," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 452 |
"What is going on?" asked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 471 |
"I do not understand this," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 505 |
"The cloth on the table and the candle," said Miles of Vonda, "are supposed to suggest to you the place of this meeting of which you spoke". |
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| 20 | 512 |
"Why would one go to such a place?" asked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 698 |
I saw that Florence, flushed, kneeling behind Miles of Vonda, was biting at the back of his tunic, and putting her hands on his hips. |
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| 20 | 716 |
"Be silent, Slave," said Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 907 |
Florence, in the brief yellow tunic, knelt behind Miles of Vonda, clutching him, her fingers caught in his tunic, her chin on his right shoulder. |
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| 20 | 974 |
I glanced about, to the small, dark-haired slave clutching my arm, to Lola, in the arms of Calliodorus, to Florence, kneeling behind Miles of Vonda, to she who had been Shirley, in her yellow gauze, kneeling to one side, now the slave of Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 1067 |
"Oh, Master," begged Florence, "please take me home, and use me! Please, my Master, take me home, and use me!" "It has been a pleasant evening," grinned Miles of Vonda, rising to his feet. |
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| 20 | 1121 |
"Very well," said Miles of Vonda, kindly. |
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| 20 | 1125 |
"Thank you, Master," she wept, "thank you!" "Thank you, Master," breathed Florence to Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 1133 |
"Are you not a slave?" asked Miles of Vonda. |
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| 20 | 1135 |
Then, suddenly, laughing, Miles of Vonda jerked open the tunic and tore it down about her lovely, flaring hips. |
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| 20 | 1140 |
I love you!" Miles of Vonda then picked up the lyre, which she had used earlier in entertaining us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 216 |
"Vonda," he said. |
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| 16 | 219 |
"Vonda is on the Olni. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 33 |
These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and other... |
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