Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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Sentence #
Quote
42
103
Certainly he was much at the palace, and, now, is the camp lord of Lord Yamada's march.
42
104
In the event of Lord Yamada's demise I suspect that Lord Akio would be the presumptive shogun.
42
105
I think that most of the lesser daimyos would accept him as, and even acclaim him to be, the successor to Lord Yamada.
42
106
To be sure there might be a civil war about the matter.
42
107
It is hard to know.
42
108
Add in now, in addition to Lord Akio's presumed uncontested ascent to the shogunate, his likely jealousy, envy, and hatred of Lord Yamada, and his long-thwarted ambition to ascend to the dais of the shogun, his possible interest in the shogun's daughter, now a vulnerable, available slave.
42
109
Would it not be a triumph for him, a delightful vengeance on Lord Yamada, and a lovely sop to his vanity, to organize similar suppers, even feasts, for his daimyos, officers, and retainers, feasts served by lovely but lowly barbarian slaves, indeed the very same who served the supper of Lord Yamada, that at which the critical and haughty Sumomo was present, only now feasts in which she herself, the former Sumomo, serves as only another slave, to the gratification and amusement of her master, amidst the very slaves she so regaled and despised?" "Only now," said Pertinax, "a supper, or suppers, or feasts, that need not be so decorous, as no free women would be present".
Certainly he was much at the palace, and, now, is the camp lord of Lord Yamada's march.
In the event of Lord Yamada's demise I suspect that Lord Akio would be the presumptive shogun.
I think that most of the lesser daimyos would accept him as, and even acclaim him to be, the successor to Lord Yamada.
To be sure there might be a civil war about the matter.
It is hard to know.
Add in now, in addition to Lord Akio's presumed uncontested ascent to the shogunate, his likely jealousy, envy, and hatred of Lord Yamada, and his long-thwarted ambition to ascend to the dais of the shogun, his possible interest in the shogun's daughter, now a vulnerable, available slave.
Would it not be a triumph for him, a delightful vengeance on Lord Yamada, and a lovely sop to his vanity, to organize similar suppers, even feasts, for his daimyos, officers, and retainers, feasts served by lovely but lowly barbarian slaves, indeed the very same who served the supper of Lord Yamada, that at which the critical and haughty Sumomo was present, only now feasts in which she herself, the former Sumomo, serves as only another slave, to the gratification and amusement of her master, amidst the very slaves she so regaled and despised?" "Only now," said Pertinax, "a supper, or suppers, or feasts, that need not be so decorous, as no free women would be present".
- (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )