Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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665
"Yes," I said.
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666
I did have some tarsk-bits in my purse, and I had certainly volunteered to buy something to eat.
37
667
On the other hand, that was at a time, as I recalled, when I thought the stranger had not a tarsk-bit to his name.
37
668
He was now a wealthy man, quite possibly the most wealthy man in Brundisium not of the merchant caste.
37
669
I suddenly began to suspect something of the economic dispositions, calculations, and shrewdness of the extremely wealthy, which shrewdness, and such, apparently, it did not take long to acquire.
37
670
After all, I thought to myself, too, he is a Cosian, and everyone knows what Cosians are like, though to be perfectly honest I had never given much thought up to that point as to Cosians in general.
37
671
Still, he was not a bad fellow.
"Yes," I said.
I did have some tarsk-bits in my purse, and I had certainly volunteered to buy something to eat.
On the other hand, that was at a time, as I recalled, when I thought the stranger had not a tarsk-bit to his name.
He was now a wealthy man, quite possibly the most wealthy man in Brundisium not of the merchant caste.
I suddenly began to suspect something of the economic dispositions, calculations, and shrewdness of the extremely wealthy, which shrewdness, and such, apparently, it did not take long to acquire.
After all, I thought to myself, too, he is a Cosian, and everyone knows what Cosians are like, though to be perfectly honest I had never given much thought up to that point as to Cosians in general.
Still, he was not a bad fellow.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )