It was not that he accepted uncritically the brunette's denials of bondage, of course, so much as that the supposition of her freedom seemed to best explain, and best cohere with, a hundred small details of her temperament and behavior.
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925
And even more to the point, if she, and the other, were free, this suddenly illuminated why they should have been inserted into his small, glassine world.
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926
They were neither gifts nor commonplace sexual provender, but torture devices, wherewith to despoil him of his honor, and perhaps his sanity.
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927
Slave girls may be used as men please.
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928
It is what they are for.
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929
But these were free women.
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930
There were the codes.
It was not that he accepted uncritically the brunette's denials of bondage, of course, so much as that the supposition of her freedom seemed to best explain, and best cohere with, a hundred small details of her temperament and behavior.
And even more to the point, if she, and the other, were free, this suddenly illuminated why they should have been inserted into his small, glassine world.
They were neither gifts nor commonplace sexual provender, but torture devices, wherewith to despoil him of his honor, and perhaps his sanity.
Slave girls may be used as men please.
It is what they are for.
But these were free women.
There were the codes.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter )