She was a woman of Earth, and had been an intellectual, a person of stature and importance.
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How was it then, she wondered, given her obvious excellence and quality, her obvious value, that she had not been purchased by a rich man, someone important, a statesman, a general or a great merchant, surely by some significant personage in Ar.
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Surely she should serve in a mansion or palace, or a great cylinder, in rich quarters.
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Did they truly not know her worth, what she deserved? How was it then that she had been purchased by a tarnmaster, a fellow not even of high caste? She wondered what he had paid for her.
He might, of course.
She was, after all, a slave.
She fixed another piece of meat in place.
She was a woman of Earth, and had been an intellectual, a person of stature and importance.
How was it then, she wondered, given her obvious excellence and quality, her obvious value, that she had not been purchased by a rich man, someone important, a statesman, a general or a great merchant, surely by some significant personage in Ar.
Surely she should serve in a mansion or palace, or a great cylinder, in rich quarters.
Did they truly not know her worth, what she deserved? How was it then that she had been purchased by a tarnmaster, a fellow not even of high caste? She wondered what he had paid for her.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )