Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 46 | 16 | But, for all I knew, he was himself a pirate and marauder. |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 46 | 13 | Would one discuss plans with tarsks? Would one wish to keep kaiila or verr informed of what is to be done with them? How helpless one is as a slave! "Paga, paga!" called a man. |
| 46 | 14 | Euphrosyne hurried to him. |
| 46 | 15 | It was ten days since the repelled attack on the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, who was apparently still at sea, supposedly in the vicinity of the Farther Islands, intent on investigating depredation and carnage wrought in his name. |
| 46 | 16 | But, for all I knew, he was himself a pirate and marauder. |
| 46 | 17 | Might it not be clever to pose as one's own imposter, to rob and burn, pretending to be one's own self? How cunning to seize loot for oneself and meanwhile feign outrage over the supposed exploits of a masquerading other! I knelt and served paga to a table, lowering my head and extending my arms. |
| 46 | 18 | It was late in the low-ceilinged, lamp-hung hall of the Golden Chain. |
| 46 | 19 | It was crowded, as was often the case toward the end of a week or the end of a passage hand, that having to do with the paying of wages. |
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Would one discuss plans with tarsks? Would one wish to keep kaiila or verr informed of what is to be done with them? How helpless one is as a slave! "Paga, paga!" called a man.
Euphrosyne hurried to him.
It was ten days since the repelled attack on the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, who was apparently still at sea, supposedly in the vicinity of the Farther Islands, intent on investigating depredation and carnage wrought in his name.
But, for all I knew, he was himself a pirate and marauder.
Might it not be clever to pose as one's own imposter, to rob and burn, pretending to be one's own self? How cunning to seize loot for oneself and meanwhile feign outrage over the supposed exploits of a masquerading other! I knelt and served paga to a table, lowering my head and extending my arms.
It was late in the low-ceilinged, lamp-hung hall of the Golden Chain.
It was crowded, as was often the case toward the end of a week or the end of a passage hand, that having to do with the paying of wages.
- (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 46)