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Her hair was cropped short, and she seemed to sag all over, as though her body were trying to conform to the shapelessness of the dress instead of the reverse. When she forced a smile to her face, it didn't seem to fit, as though her mouth were unused to such treatment from the muscles. "How you feel?" she asked, stopping just inside the room. "I ... uh " The Guesser hardly knew what to say.
He was hard put to do it, but he managed to stride purposefully across the great spacefield toward the towering bulk of the Trobwell without betraying that fear. If they caught him now He closed his mind against the thought and kept on walking. At the base of the landing cradle, a Class Four guard was standing stolidly. He bowed his head and saluted as The Guesser walked by. It's so easy!
"This is a characteristic story, as it shows a doctor's tyranny. There was a boy taken ill at a little town near Chicago. The country doctor telephoned up to the boy's father, and the father telephoned the family physician who, from the meagre facts, scented appendicitis. I don't know how he knew it was bad, but I believe a good doctor is a pretty good guesser.
'You wonder how she comes here? said Mrs Skewton, 'don't you? 'Edith, perhaps suggested Mr Dombey. 'Ah! wicked guesser! replied Cleopatra, shaking her head. 'Ah! cunning, cunning man! One shouldn't tell these things; your sex, my dear Dombey, are so vain, and so apt to abuse our weakness; but you know my open soul very well; immediately.
"It's a great secret, my dear child; but he is coming a-courting!" Catherine was serious still. "Is that what he told you!" "He didn't say so exactly. But he left me to guess it. I'm a good guesser." "Do you mean a-courting me?" "Not me, certainly, miss; though I must say he is a hundred times more polite to a person who has no longer extreme youth to recommend her than most of the young men.
But the Sixer woman said she had heard that the Aristarchy was holding back facts; that there were planets clear out to the Periphery, all occupied by Misfits; that the legendary Earth was one of those planets; that A thousand things. All wrong, as The Guesser knew. But she was firmly convinced that if anyone could get to a Misfit planet, they would be welcomed.
"But still I feel that His embrace Slides down, by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: "As if my tender mother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half-waking me at night; and said, 'Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?"
Freddie groped for her meaning. "Do you mean you've made a bloomer of some kind?" "I pulled the worst kind of bone. I stopped on in London when the rest of the company went back home, and now I've got to stick." "Rush of jolly old professional engagement, what?" Nelly laughed bitterly. "You're a bad guesser. No, they haven't started to fight over me yet. I'm at liberty, as they say in the Era."
Little," he said quietly, "if you're always as easy in your choice of men you're not the wise owl I thought you at first sight." "Me? Good guesser, that's all," returned Little, unrebuked. "Think I'm an easy mark, hey? Muggins from Muggsville? Come again, Barry. Beg pardon, Cap'n Barry, I should say. Haul th' bowline! Jack up th' fo'c'sle yard! See, I'm also a tarry shellback way down deep."
"To the old boathouse, down the cove." "Sure. You are a good guesser, old man." Then the thought came to Frank that it would be a good thing for Fardale Academy if that boathouse should burn to the ground. It was there plebes generally received their first hazing, and there most of the fights between the cadets took place.
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