Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 51 | If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape. |
| 1 | 52 | Perhaps it would be safer to drop him into a well. |
| 1 | 53 | Torm had stumbled into more than one well in his life and no one who knew him would think it strange to find him sputtering about at the bottom of one. |
| 1 | 54 | The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged. |
| 1 | 55 | The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar's Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference. |
| 1 | 56 | Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens. |
| 1 | 57 | If they did not, of course, the fairs would be closed to the citizens of that city. |
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If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape.
Perhaps it would be safer to drop him into a well.
Torm had stumbled into more than one well in his life and no one who knew him would think it strange to find him sputtering about at the bottom of one.
The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar's Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference.
Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
If they did not, of course, the fairs would be closed to the citizens of that city.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )