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In the course of this journey I had opportunities of learning many things respecting the social and practical conditions of human life and industry on Mars that had hitherto been unknown to me, and to appreciate the enormous advance in material civilisation which has accompanied what seems to me, as it would probably seem to any other Earth-dweller, a terrible moral degeneration.
Then she saw the ring upon his hand and again started still more violently. "What ails your Majesty?" asked the Pharaoh. "Oh, naught," she answered. "Yet does this earth-dweller remind you of anyone?" "Yes, he does," answered the Pharaoh. "He reminds me very much of that accursed sculptor about whom we had words."
The Thing was at the breach, couched in the great cleft that split the Barrier, darkness within darkness. Unseen, I felt the glare of Its hate beat upon me. From It emanated deathly cold, like the nearness of an iceberg in the night, with an odor of damp and mold. "Puny earth-dweller, lost here," Its menace breathed, "what keeps you from destruction?
It might have been one of the gates of pearl of which he had heard tell. It was the sort of thing from which no earth-dweller could take his eyes. He stood leaning on his stick, his cigar smoldering in his left hand.
The demon, being an earth-dweller with the ineradicable objection of this class of creatures towards all the elements of moisture, at once relinquished its hold, and going direct to the part of the works indicated, it there awaited its victim with the design of resuming its discreditable persecution. Wong Ts'in had spoken with a double tongue.
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