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Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
17 298 He must not have seen me! "Let the churl be stripped," I had said, imperiously, "and a sign be put about his neck, proclaiming him a fraud.
17 299 Then let him be marched naked, before the spears of guards, through the great gate of Corcyrus, not to be permitted to return before the second passage hand!" But I could not run now.
17 300 I, helpless, naked, chained in place, was being publicly displayed.
17 301 A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him, a matter having to do with a bowl, purportedly silver, but only plated, and one bearing a forged mark, misrepresenting it as the work of the silversmiths of Ar.
17 302 Surely he must now have passed by.
17 303 Further inquiries had been made and it was found that he had among his goods a set of false weights.
17 304 He must now have gone.
He must not have seen me! "Let the churl be stripped," I had said, imperiously, "and a sign be put about his neck, proclaiming him a fraud. Then let him be marched naked, before the spears of guards, through the great gate of Corcyrus, not to be permitted to return before the second passage hand!" But I could not run now. I, helpless, naked, chained in place, was being publicly displayed. A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him, a matter having to do with a bowl, purportedly silver, but only plated, and one bearing a forged mark, misrepresenting it as the work of the silversmiths of Ar. Surely he must now have passed by. Further inquiries had been made and it was found that he had among his goods a set of false weights. He must now have gone. - (Kajira of Gor, Chapter )