Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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487
It was perhaps two Ahn later, our deliberations then concluded, that I recalled her.
26
488
I did inquire, however, of the fellow who had accompanied her to the general slave quarters the nature of her journey to that destination.
26
489
It was not other than I had anticipated.
26
490
It was no secret in the kasbah that lovely Vella, whom I had found displeasing, had been the favorite of Ibn Saran, that she had been a high slave, that she had been pampered and privileged, that she had been given the luxury of private quarters, and special jewelries and silks, that she had disdained to commingle with her sisters in bondage, that she, though only of Earth, had held herself better than they.
26
491
Accordingly, then, an unusually large number of girls had gathered to escort Vella gleefully, as though in festival, to the slave quarters.
26
492
Some of these were, I suppose, alerted by the chant of the caller, but a great many, it seems, had been lingering in the vicinity, anticipating this journey.
26
493
Vella herself, I gathered, had not anticipated that she would be making it.
It was perhaps two Ahn later, our deliberations then concluded, that I recalled her.
I did inquire, however, of the fellow who had accompanied her to the general slave quarters the nature of her journey to that destination.
It was not other than I had anticipated.
It was no secret in the kasbah that lovely Vella, whom I had found displeasing, had been the favorite of Ibn Saran, that she had been a high slave, that she had been pampered and privileged, that she had been given the luxury of private quarters, and special jewelries and silks, that she had disdained to commingle with her sisters in bondage, that she, though only of Earth, had held herself better than they.
Accordingly, then, an unusually large number of girls had gathered to escort Vella gleefully, as though in festival, to the slave quarters.
Some of these were, I suppose, alerted by the chant of the caller, but a great many, it seems, had been lingering in the vicinity, anticipating this journey.
Vella herself, I gathered, had not anticipated that she would be making it.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )