Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
18
9
"Many in the taverns," I said, "do not credit your story".
18
10
"I have not had a drink in days," he said, "even when others drank".
18
11
"And you have not rethought your tale?" I asked.
18
12
"I was not always a drunken urt sleeping in alleys," he said, "slinking about the waterfront of Sybaris, pushing into taverns, in rags, unwelcome and mocked, begging, soliciting a goblet of paga.
18
13
I was a captain, master of a fine round ship of a hundred oars".
18
14
"Lost at sea," I said.
18
15
"That is the part of the story I did not tell," he said, "the terrible part, the part I would dare not tell, the part I was ashamed to tell".
"Many in the taverns," I said, "do not credit your story".
"I have not had a drink in days," he said, "even when others drank".
"And you have not rethought your tale?" I asked.
"I was not always a drunken urt sleeping in alleys," he said, "slinking about the waterfront of Sybaris, pushing into taverns, in rags, unwelcome and mocked, begging, soliciting a goblet of paga.
I was a captain, master of a fine round ship of a hundred oars".
"Lost at sea," I said.
"That is the part of the story I did not tell," he said, "the terrible part, the part I would dare not tell, the part I was ashamed to tell".
- (Avengers of Gor, Chapter )