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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
23 37 How proudly and yet how marvelously she stood beside me.
23 38 I saw that she had picked a talender on the hill, and that she had placed it in her hair.
23 39 I shook my head.
23 40 Though the full force of my will drove me to the mountains, though in the mountains the priest-kings waited for me, I could not yet go.
23 41 It was unthinkable that I should take this girl into the Sardar to be destroyed as I would be destroyed, that I should devastate this young life so recently initiated into the glories of the senses, which had just awakened into the victories of life and feeling.
23 42 What could I balance against her—my honor, my thirst for vengeance, my curiosity, my frustration, my fury? I put my arm about her shoulder and led her down from the hillock.
23 43 She looked at me questioningly.
How proudly and yet how marvelously she stood beside me. I saw that she had picked a talender on the hill, and that she had placed it in her hair. I shook my head. Though the full force of my will drove me to the mountains, though in the mountains the priest-kings waited for me, I could not yet go. It was unthinkable that I should take this girl into the Sardar to be destroyed as I would be destroyed, that I should devastate this young life so recently initiated into the glories of the senses, which had just awakened into the victories of life and feeling. What could I balance against her—my honor, my thirst for vengeance, my curiosity, my frustration, my fury? I put my arm about her shoulder and led her down from the hillock. She looked at me questioningly. - (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )