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He turned his head, and Stella saw that he was not blind. For his eyes took her in, for the moment appraised her. Then with ungainly, tortoiselike movements, he arose. "I am her excellency's servant," he said, in hollow, quavering accents. "I live or die at her most gracious command." It was abjectly spoken, yet she shuddered at the sound of his voice.
It was, in fact, a medieval corselet of finest steel mesh, capable of turning an elephant bullet. "Go'long!" ordered Mooney finally. "I guess you're safe!" He turned back in the direction of Chatham Square, while Quong resumed his tortoiselike perambulation toward Ah Fong's.
Is it living to advance with tortoiselike pace in the darkness, not to be able to enjoy an hour's tranquillity, without trembling at the thought of the coming anguish? No, no! All knowledge and all happiness in a single day? Science has promised them to us, and if she does not give them to us, then she fails in her engagements." Then he, too, began to grow heated.
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