Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 117 | His sword, it seemed, stood between Seremides and Callias. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 114 | Interestingly, beyond this, he had often kept me near him, as though I might be a guardsman. |
| 12 | 115 | In such times, of course, I was armed. |
| 12 | 116 | In any event, I suspected that the fact that I was still alive might be due in no small part to the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot. |
| 12 | 117 | His sword, it seemed, stood between Seremides and Callias. |
| 12 | 118 | But, too, I thought, and shivered, perhaps more was involved, more than I had suspected? Might it not be I, Callias, who would serve to lure Seremides in? Clearly there was bad blood between the tarnsman and Seremides. |
| 12 | 119 | Might there not be then some trap I did not understand, in which I might be the bait? How astonished I had been when it had become clear to me that the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, did not fear Seremides, but, on the contrary, appeared ready to welcome an opportunity to match steel with him, and how more astonished I had been to note that Seremides was clearly reluctant to accept such a match. |
| 12 | 120 | What sort of man might be the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot? But even the finest steel is of little avail against poison, against an Anango dart at the base of the skull, against a knife in the back. |
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Interestingly, beyond this, he had often kept me near him, as though I might be a guardsman.
In such times, of course, I was armed.
In any event, I suspected that the fact that I was still alive might be due in no small part to the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot.
His sword, it seemed, stood between Seremides and Callias.
But, too, I thought, and shivered, perhaps more was involved, more than I had suspected? Might it not be I, Callias, who would serve to lure Seremides in? Clearly there was bad blood between the tarnsman and Seremides.
Might there not be then some trap I did not understand, in which I might be the bait? How astonished I had been when it had become clear to me that the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, did not fear Seremides, but, on the contrary, appeared ready to welcome an opportunity to match steel with him, and how more astonished I had been to note that Seremides was clearly reluctant to accept such a match.
What sort of man might be the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot? But even the finest steel is of little avail against poison, against an Anango dart at the base of the skull, against a knife in the back.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 12)