Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 45 | Long ago I had learned not to press the tuchuk when he did not wish to speak. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 42 | "Is that the only reason that so many of Turia yet live beyond the city?" He looked at me, without expression. |
| 24 | 43 | "Surely, Commander," he said, "you have duties elsewhere". |
| 24 | 44 | I nodded curtly and turned and left the room, dismissed. |
| 24 | 45 | Long ago I had learned not to press the tuchuk when he did not wish to speak. |
| 24 | 46 | But as I left I wondered at his comparative lenience. |
| 24 | 47 | He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though only as refugees beyond the walls. |
| 24 | 48 | The clearest exception to this, of course, lay in the case of the more beautiful of the city's women, who were treated by Gorean custom, as portions of the booty. |
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"Is that the only reason that so many of Turia yet live beyond the city?" He looked at me, without expression.
"Surely, Commander," he said, "you have duties elsewhere".
I nodded curtly and turned and left the room, dismissed.
Long ago I had learned not to press the tuchuk when he did not wish to speak.
But as I left I wondered at his comparative lenience.
He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though only as refugees beyond the walls.
The clearest exception to this, of course, lay in the case of the more beautiful of the city's women, who were treated by Gorean custom, as portions of the booty.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 24)