Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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105
It had been five weeks of entertainments, of fetes, of banquets and honors piled one upon another.
15
106
The treasures taken were rich beyond our wildest expectations, beyond the most remote calculations of our most avaricious scribes.
15
107
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the council for my deeds and the awarding of its most coveted accolade, that of worthy captain of Port Kar.
15
108
Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of council of Captains of Port Kar in a half curve beneath it.
15
109
I threw down more paga.
15
110
I indeed was a worthy captain of Port Kar.
15
111
I smiled to myself.
It had been five weeks of entertainments, of fetes, of banquets and honors piled one upon another.
The treasures taken were rich beyond our wildest expectations, beyond the most remote calculations of our most avaricious scribes.
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the council for my deeds and the awarding of its most coveted accolade, that of worthy captain of Port Kar.
Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of council of Captains of Port Kar in a half curve beneath it.
I threw down more paga.
I indeed was a worthy captain of Port Kar.
I smiled to myself.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )