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While you're waiting, you might sort out whoever seems to be in charge and find out just what in Nifflheim he thinks that launching-station was maintained for." "I think I can tell you that, now, Commodore," Prince Trevannion said as Shatrak blanked the screen. "We have a petrified authoritarianism.
Moreover, we were informed that he "wouldn't have no adjective skulking;" we must "turn to" and do something after wasting the ship's time and property in such a blanked manner. There was a limit, however, to our obedience, so although we could not move at all for awhile, his threats were not proceeded with farther than theory.
"Nothing much," says I, "except that Miss Polly is plannin' to be married soon." "Married!" he gasps. "Polly? Why, she's only a child!" "Not at half past nineteen," says I. "I should call her considerable young lady." "Well, I'll be blanked!" says he. "Little Polly grown up and wanting to be married! She ought to be spanked instead. What are they after; my consent, eh?"
I had to send for his wife and child of course, a dead loss of eighteen hundred dollars when they set foot in the State but I'm blanked if he isn't just as miserable with them here, for he has to take two hours in the morning and three in the afternoon every day to be with 'em.
"Old Scotchie takes his religion out in prayin', I guess," drawled in Bill, "but wants to sponge for his plant." This reference to Robbie's proposal to use the school moved the youngsters to tittering and made the little Scotchman squirm, for he prided himself upon his independence. "There ain't $700 in the hull blanked outfit."
The call-indicator in front of him began glowing with the code-symbol of the Minister of Security. "We can always hope, can't we? Well, Yorn Travann's trying to get me, now." "Don't keep him waiting. Maybe I can see you before the Session." She made a kissing motion with her lips at him, and blanked the screen. He flipped the switch again, and Prince Travann was on the screen.
It's a new technique, but a lot of us already have it . . ." She turned her head away briefly, then went on. "You could say he has the mind of a newborn child in an adult body. Who was the first person he saw after he . . . blanked out?" "He has no one seen." "I can guess why." She grimaced. "Damn. Okay, who was the first one he heard? If he can still hear." "He can, ka'naya. And I the first was."
Carroll poured out a volley of oaths. "You're sure about that fifty yards, Carroll?" asked Ike, in insinuating tones. "I didn't pace it, you blanked fool! but I'll swear it wasn't more than thirty." "You're dead sure about that thirty yards, Carroll?" persisted Ike. "I am that, and if you want to say anything more come outside!" said Carroll, glaring wildly at his interlocutor.
But when he found out that all we wanted was newspapers, he was so completely overpowered with surprise that all he could say was, "Well I'll be blanked." This he kept repeating all the way to his cabin as he went to gather some late copies of the 'New York Herald'. When he again came upon deck he had recovered his accustomed composure, and asked where we were from and where bound.
He slid along at such a rate the ice was melted as he went; his shins were barked, and on his pate there was a large unsightly dent. And when he'd breath enough to talk, he didn't cave around and swear, or blank the blanked old icy walk; he merely cried: "Well, I declare!" Some years ago I wrote a book, and no one read it save myself; it occupies a dusty nook, all sad and lonesome, on the shelf.
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