Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 11 | 275 | "How can I ever hope to become a free companion," she wept. |
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 272 | I looked at the tiny steel rods holding open the wounds in her ears. |
| 11 | 273 | "But only slave girls," she wept, "have their ears pierced". |
| 11 | 274 | She wept. |
| 11 | 275 | "How can I ever hope to become a free companion," she wept. |
| 11 | 276 | "What man would want a woman with the pierced ears of a slave girl? And if I were not veiled, anyone might look upon me, and laugh, and scorn me, seeing that my ears had been pierced, as those of a slave girl!" I shook my head, and again pressed my head into her shoulder. |
| 11 | 277 | I understood nothing. |
| 11 | 278 | I knew only I, Elinor Brinton, once of Park Avenue, once of the restaurants and boulevards of New York and the continent, now wore in my nose a tiny ring of steel. |
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I looked at the tiny steel rods holding open the wounds in her ears.
"But only slave girls," she wept, "have their ears pierced".
She wept.
"How can I ever hope to become a free companion," she wept.
"What man would want a woman with the pierced ears of a slave girl? And if I were not veiled, anyone might look upon me, and laugh, and scorn me, seeing that my ears had been pierced, as those of a slave girl!" I shook my head, and again pressed my head into her shoulder.
I understood nothing.
I knew only I, Elinor Brinton, once of Park Avenue, once of the restaurants and boulevards of New York and the continent, now wore in my nose a tiny ring of steel.
- (Captive of Gor, Chapter 11)