Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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190
My companion then rose and I, decidedly uneasy, for we had not been given permission to rise, rose to my feet, as well.
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191
I knew nothing else to do.
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192
"Come, Phyllis," she said.
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193
"There is nothing for us to do now but return to the court, and inform the masters that Porus, the salt merchant, he who deals near the east gate, declined to weigh salt for us".
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194
She then backed away, a step or two, as did I, and turned to leave.
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195
We had scarcely gone three steps when Porus called out to us, "Wait, sweet kajirae," he said, "I did but jest".
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196
Shortly thereafter we left his impromptu place of business, amongst the kegs, I bearing a bulging bag of salt, one which, we noted, bore well over a stone's weight of the sparkling mineral, sometimes called the diamond of the sea.
My companion then rose and I, decidedly uneasy, for we had not been given permission to rise, rose to my feet, as well.
I knew nothing else to do.
"Come, Phyllis," she said.
"There is nothing for us to do now but return to the court, and inform the masters that Porus, the salt merchant, he who deals near the east gate, declined to weigh salt for us".
She then backed away, a step or two, as did I, and turned to leave.
We had scarcely gone three steps when Porus called out to us, "Wait, sweet kajirae," he said, "I did but jest".
Shortly thereafter we left his impromptu place of business, amongst the kegs, I bearing a bulging bag of salt, one which, we noted, bore well over a stone's weight of the sparkling mineral, sometimes called the diamond of the sea.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter )