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Updated: May 25, 2025
How do you know he can't?" she challenged. "How can he, come to that?" "I don't say he can." Looked at in cold blood, through the eyes of another, the near-panic that had seized her a few hours earlier appeared ridiculous. "But I don't have to like him, do I? He acted hateful if you want to know." "How d'you mean hateful?" A wave of color swept through her cheeks to the brown throat.
She did not want to talk about the feelings of Tom Morse toward her. "It's all very well to joke, but " "Shall I ask him?" he teased. She flew into a mild near-panic. "If you dare, Win Beresford!" The flash in her eyes was no longer mirth. "We'll talk about something else. I don't think it's very nice of us to to " "Tom retired from conversational circulation," he announced.
People rose, rushed for the exits in near-panic. Women screamed. He stopped the orchestra, turned to the audience, held up his hand and shouted: "Come back! Sit down! Sit down all of you! Everything is all right!" The customers meekly resumed their seats. Mr. Koussevitzky swung 'round and continued playing Debussy's brooding, sensuous dreampiece as if nothing had happened.
Men were no longer simply talking or laughing as they so cheerfully labored in transferring some of the contraband from the sloop to the deck of the speedboat their voices were raised to shouts in which surprise, even the element of near-panic, could be detected. Then came a flash, succeeded by a sharp report, undoubtedly standing for the discharge of some species of firearm!
She had expected some unease; the Lords said that he had never shared bodies, since he had never gone through the ceremony humans needed to make it honorable, as some of the prisoners had. But simple inexperience didn't explain his near-panic response. There was a First Sharing for everyone, an occasion for joy in the clan almost as important as a birth.
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