Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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71
Muchly then were we pleased to be within the garden.
5
72
We were sometimes frightened that the portals of the house might be breached, that the hinges of barred gates might be broken from the stone, that the garden might be entered, and we might be found, helpless in the garden, like luscious fruit in an orchard whose supposedly impregnable walls have been rent.
5
73
These fears were not as ungrounded as one might suppose.
5
74
Times were hard in the city, I gathered, though I did not understand much of what was occurring.
5
75
Sometimes something like anarchy seemed to reign in the streets.
5
76
Certain gardens, we had gathered, had been breached, and plundered, their contents taken away, to what places and for what purposes who knew.
5
77
But our house, I understood, was immune from such ravages.
Muchly then were we pleased to be within the garden.
We were sometimes frightened that the portals of the house might be breached, that the hinges of barred gates might be broken from the stone, that the garden might be entered, and we might be found, helpless in the garden, like luscious fruit in an orchard whose supposedly impregnable walls have been rent.
These fears were not as ungrounded as one might suppose.
Times were hard in the city, I gathered, though I did not understand much of what was occurring.
Sometimes something like anarchy seemed to reign in the streets.
Certain gardens, we had gathered, had been breached, and plundered, their contents taken away, to what places and for what purposes who knew.
But our house, I understood, was immune from such ravages.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )