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'Tell you later. As I was saying, our Serviles held the meeting, and pretty soon we had to ground-circuit the platform to save 'em from being killed. And that didn't make our people any more pacific. 'How d'you mean? I ventured to ask. 'If you've ever been ground-circuited, said the Mayor, 'you'll know it don't improve any man's temper to be held up straining against nothing. No, sir!
'I may be ass enough to walk into a ground-circuit, said Arnott, 'but I don't dismiss my Fleet till I'm reasonably sure that trouble is over. They're in position still, and I intend to keep 'em there till the Serviles are shipped out of the district. That last little crowd meant murder, my friends. 'Nerves! All nerves! said Pirolo. 'You cannot argue with agoraphobia.
'Only a single-fuse ground-circuit! Arnott called. 'Sort it out gently, please. We heard the ping of a breaking lamp; a fuse blew out somewhere in the verandah roof, frightening a nestful of birds. The ground-circuit was open. We stooped and rubbed our tingling ankles. 'How rude how very rude of you! the maiden cried. ''Sorry, but we haven't time to look funny, said Arnott.
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