Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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385
"Perhaps you did not enjoy the races?" It was the voice of the man who had sat behind me in the tiers, before I had changed my seat to avoid recognition by the small fool Hup, he who had spoken poorly of the Hinrabian on the throne of Ar, and who had purchased a candy from the fool.
12
386
It struck me that there was something familiar about the voice.
12
387
I turned.
12
388
Facing me, clean-shaven, but with a massive, regal face concealed in the hood of a peasant, his gigantic body broad and powerful in the coarse rep-cloth garment of what is thought to be Gor's lowest caste, there stood a man whom I could not mistake, even though it had been years since I had looked upon him, even though his great beard was now gone, even though his body now wore the hood and garment of a peasant.
12
389
In his right hand there was a heavy peasant staff, some six feet in height and perhaps two inches in width.
12
390
The man smiled at me, and turned away.
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391
I reached out and began to walk after him but I stumbled into the body of Hup the Fool, spilling his tray of candies.
"Perhaps you did not enjoy the races?" It was the voice of the man who had sat behind me in the tiers, before I had changed my seat to avoid recognition by the small fool Hup, he who had spoken poorly of the Hinrabian on the throne of Ar, and who had purchased a candy from the fool.
It struck me that there was something familiar about the voice.
I turned.
Facing me, clean-shaven, but with a massive, regal face concealed in the hood of a peasant, his gigantic body broad and powerful in the coarse rep-cloth garment of what is thought to be Gor's lowest caste, there stood a man whom I could not mistake, even though it had been years since I had looked upon him, even though his great beard was now gone, even though his body now wore the hood and garment of a peasant.
In his right hand there was a heavy peasant staff, some six feet in height and perhaps two inches in width.
The man smiled at me, and turned away.
I reached out and began to walk after him but I stumbled into the body of Hup the Fool, spilling his tray of candies.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )