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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)

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11 162 As my projects developed I had no wish to suffer for not having applied for clienthood to one Ubar or another.
11 163 I did not wish to have to sue for the protection of a strong man.
11 164 I preferred to be my own.
11 165 Accordingly I wished for the council to consolidate its power in the city.
11 166 It seemed that now, with the failure of the coup of Henrius Sevarius, and the diminishment of the power of the other Ubars, she might well do so.
11 167 The council, I expected, itself composed of captains, men much like myself, would provide a political structure within which my ambitions and projects might well prosper.
11 168 Nominally beneath its aegis, I might, for all practical purposes, be free to augment my house as I saw fit, the House of Bosk, of Port Kar.
As my projects developed I had no wish to suffer for not having applied for clienthood to one Ubar or another. I did not wish to have to sue for the protection of a strong man. I preferred to be my own. Accordingly I wished for the council to consolidate its power in the city. It seemed that now, with the failure of the coup of Henrius Sevarius, and the diminishment of the power of the other Ubars, she might well do so. The council, I expected, itself composed of captains, men much like myself, would provide a political structure within which my ambitions and projects might well prosper. Nominally beneath its aegis, I might, for all practical purposes, be free to augment my house as I saw fit, the House of Bosk, of Port Kar. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )