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When there was a lull, Art Kuzak talked expansively in his office bubb: "Good work, Frank. Same to you, Ramos except that I know you're itching with your own ideas, and probably won't be around long. Which is your affair... Never mind what anybody says about Venus, or any other place. The Belt, with its history, its metals, and its possibilities, is the best part of the solar system.
It ain't easy to get at, but I'll manage it somehow. Now, if I had Polly to help me I mean Miss Sparkes " With a muttering of impatience the girl rose; in the same moment she drew from her belt a gold watch, and deliberately consulted it. Observing this Mrs. Bubb looked towards Mr. Gammon, who, also observant, returned the glance.
The Bunch surrounded him, wanting to help, but he half recovered. "Even a good Space Force bubb, manufactured under rigid government specifications, can tear," he said in a thick tone. "If some jerk, horsing around with another craft, bumps you even lightly. Compartmentation helps, but you can still be unlucky. I was fortunate almost buttoned into my Archer Six, already.
A true-born child of town, he would have found the real country quite unendurable; in his doggy rambles about Dulwich he always preferred a northerly direction, and was never so happy as when sitting in the inn-parlour amid a group of friends whose voices rang the purest Cockney. "I'm going to have a look at the bow-wows," he replied to Mrs. Bubb.
"You're an independent party, you are," said Mrs. Bubb, eyeing him with admiration. "It was always more than I could do to stand a hint of that kind. Not so long ago I used to lose my temper, but I've taken pattern by Polly I mean Miss Sparkes and now I do it quietly. That reminds me" his look changed to seriousness "do you know anyone of the name of Quodling?"
"Now, see 'ere, Polly. You're a young gyell, my dear, and a 'andsome gyell, as we all know, and you've only one fault, which there ain't no need to mention it. And we're all fond of you, Polly, that's the fact. Ain't we all fond of her, Mrs. Bubb?" "Oh, yes, she's very fond of me!" exclaimed the girl. "And so is my Aunt Louisa.
In this warm weather the atmosphere within doors might occasionally be a trifle close, but Shaftesbury Avenue is a fine broad street, and has great advantages of situation. To Mr. Gammon's casual inquiry, Mrs. Bubb replied that she neither knew nor cared whither Polly had betaken herself.
When he was out alone, exploring a new post site on a small asteroid, a starved Tovie runaway had jumped him. Maybe he should regret the end of that incident. Trips to Pallastown were increasingly infrequent. But there was one time when he almost had come specially to see Ramos' new bubb, still under wraps, supposedly. Well that erratic character had it out on a long test run. Damn him!
Angry agitation again took hold of Polly's aunt, who was very easily swayed by an opinion from Mr. Gammon. The landlady, too, gave willing ear to his words. "Do you mean," she asked, "that we should really break the door open?" "I do; and what's more I'll pay the damage. Go up, Mrs. Bubb, and just say what I told you; and let's see how she takes it." Mrs. Clover began a faint objection, but Mrs.
This fertile and sheltered tract of country, in which the fields are never brown and the springs never dry, is bounded on the south by the bold chalk ridge that embraces the prominences of Hambledon Hill, Bulbarrow, Nettlecombe-Tout, Dogbury, High Stoy, and Bubb Down.
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