Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
2
1012
If he was involved he would have been stupid to use his own booth.
2
1013
Too, I suspected he had little love for Ar, and perhaps thus for Brundisium.
2
1014
He had once been banished from Ar, and nearly impaled, for the falsification of slave data, misrepresenting merchandise as to its level of training and skill.
2
1015
I, too, had once been denied salt, bread and fire in Ar, and banished from the city.
2
1016
I did not think, however, that Marlenus, of Ar, her Ubar, he who had banished me, would be likely to send a covert assassin from Brundisium against me, from Brundisium perhaps to make the connection with Ar seem unlikely or tenuous.
2
1017
If he wished to have it out with me, presumably he would do so, with his own blade.
2
1018
Marlenus was too direct and proud for such deviousness.
If he was involved he would have been stupid to use his own booth.
Too, I suspected he had little love for Ar, and perhaps thus for Brundisium.
He had once been banished from Ar, and nearly impaled, for the falsification of slave data, misrepresenting merchandise as to its level of training and skill.
I, too, had once been denied salt, bread and fire in Ar, and banished from the city.
I did not think, however, that Marlenus, of Ar, her Ubar, he who had banished me, would be likely to send a covert assassin from Brundisium against me, from Brundisium perhaps to make the connection with Ar seem unlikely or tenuous.
If he wished to have it out with me, presumably he would do so, with his own blade.
Marlenus was too direct and proud for such deviousness.
- (Players of Gor, Chapter )