Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
5
730
She had cost me the tarn; it was worth ten times the cost of her body on a public block.
5
731
None but its master should it have permitted its saddle! Of what value is a tarn of war who permits a stranger, even a girl, a mere wench, to ascend to its saddle? I had driven it away.
5
732
When I thought of the tarn I sometimes wanted to lash her beauty to the bone.
5
733
Yet I recalled that once had she labored, as I, before her flight, her disobedience, for priest-kings.
5
734
I, in my courtly simplicities, my romantic delusions of those times, had wished to return her safe to Earth.
5
735
She had declined, fleeing the Sardar.
5
736
It had been a brave act.
She had cost me the tarn; it was worth ten times the cost of her body on a public block.
None but its master should it have permitted its saddle! Of what value is a tarn of war who permits a stranger, even a girl, a mere wench, to ascend to its saddle? I had driven it away.
When I thought of the tarn I sometimes wanted to lash her beauty to the bone.
Yet I recalled that once had she labored, as I, before her flight, her disobedience, for priest-kings.
I, in my courtly simplicities, my romantic delusions of those times, had wished to return her safe to Earth.
She had declined, fleeing the Sardar.
It had been a brave act.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )