Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 364 | The most obvious was that good prices are commanded on the love Feast. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 361 | The training of the girls, over the months, had been substantially completed, and would be for all practical purposes finished by the end of the twelfth passage hand. |
| 15 | 362 | Many houses would doubtless have put them up for sale in En'Kara, but Cernus, as I had heard, was saving them for the love Feast, which occupies the five days of the fifth passage hand, falling late in the summer. |
| 15 | 363 | There was a variety of reasons why he was postponing their sale. |
| 15 | 364 | The most obvious was that good prices are commanded on the love Feast. |
| 15 | 365 | But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, and a large number who had been brought in subsequent trips to the Voltai by the ship of the slavers; I had sometimes but not always accompanied Cernus on these missions; to the best of my knowledge one or another of the black ships had come seven times to the point of rendezvous, since the one I had first seen; the House of Cernus now, altogether, had better than one hundred and fifty barbarians in training, under the tutelage of various Passion Slaves; I gathered that the reports of Sura and Ho-Tu on the progress of the first group, that of Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis, had been extremely encouraging. |
| 15 | 366 | In postponing the sales until the love Feast, of course, there would be time to complete, at least substantially, the training of a large number of barbarian girls. |
| 15 | 367 | Also, as Cernus doubtless intended, the delay would give his delicately seeded rumors, pertaining to the desirability of barbarians, time to circulate, time to stimulate the imagination and inflame the curiosity of potential buyers. |
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The training of the girls, over the months, had been substantially completed, and would be for all practical purposes finished by the end of the twelfth passage hand.
Many houses would doubtless have put them up for sale in En'Kara, but Cernus, as I had heard, was saving them for the love Feast, which occupies the five days of the fifth passage hand, falling late in the summer.
There was a variety of reasons why he was postponing their sale.
The most obvious was that good prices are commanded on the love Feast.
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, and a large number who had been brought in subsequent trips to the Voltai by the ship of the slavers; I had sometimes but not always accompanied Cernus on these missions; to the best of my knowledge one or another of the black ships had come seven times to the point of rendezvous, since the one I had first seen; the House of Cernus now, altogether, had better than one hundred and fifty barbarians in training, under the tutelage of various Passion Slaves; I gathered that the reports of Sura and Ho-Tu on the progress of the first group, that of Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis, had been extremely encouraging.
In postponing the sales until the love Feast, of course, there would be time to complete, at least substantially, the training of a large number of barbarian girls.
Also, as Cernus doubtless intended, the delay would give his delicately seeded rumors, pertaining to the desirability of barbarians, time to circulate, time to stimulate the imagination and inflame the curiosity of potential buyers.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 15)