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As this produced no effect beyond rendering the edge of the weapon unfit for further use, and almost paralysing the sinews of his own right arm, Chang Tao threw away the sword and sat down on the road in order to recall his breath. When he raised his head again the dragon had disappeared and Pe-lung stood there as before.
"You have the authority of my extended hand," conceded Pe-lung readily, raising it as he spoke. "Speak freely." "I claim the protection of its benignant shadow," said Chang Tao, with content. "You, O Pe-lung, are one who has mingled freely with creatures of every kind in all the Nine Spaces.
The way was long and laborious, "For," remarked Pe-lung, "in an ordinary course I should fly there in a single breath of time; but to seize an honoured guest by the body-cloth and thus transfer him over the side of a mountain is toilsome to the one and humiliating to the other." To beguile the time he spoke freely of the hardships of his lot.
"That is easily put to the test." No sooner had Pe-lung uttered these words than he faded, and in his place appeared a formidable monster possessing all the terror-inspiring characteristics of his kind. Yet in spite of his tree-like eyebrows, fiercely-moving whiskers and fire-breathing jaws, his voice was mild and pacific as he continued: "What further proof can be required?
At this moment, though in the guise of a substantial trader, I possess a tail small but adequate. Is it possible that you and those of your insolvent race are destitute?" "In this particular, magnificence, I and those of my threadbare species are most lamentably deficient. To the proving of this end shall I display myself?" "It is not necessary," said Pe-lung coldly.
The erring gnome, in spite of his misdeed, was but a finger of the larger hand of destiny, and as it is, it is." "This assurance gladdens my face, no less for your sake than for my own," declared Pe-lung heartily. "For my part, I have found a way to enlarge you in the eyes of those whom you solicit.
Pe-lung pointed to the empty bed of the deflected river and moved his head from side to side as one who draws an analogy to his own condition.
Thus the matter rests." "Which, then, of the twain is she inherent of your house and which Melodious Vision?" demanded Chang Tao in some concern. "The matter can assuredly not rest thus." "That," replied Pe-lung affably, "it will be your engaging task to unravel, and to this end will be your opportunity of closely watching Fuh-sang's unsuspecting movements in my absence through the night."
My rust-eaten sword is unworthy of your second thought. But certainly neither of these two details is the real reason of my dark despair." "Disclose yourself more openly," urged Pe-lung. "I now plainly recognize the futility of my well-intentioned quest.
Pe-lung still retained the impressive form of a gigantic dragon as he cleft the Middle Air, shining and iridescent, each beat of his majestic wings being as a roll of thunder and the skittering of sand and water from his crepitant scales leaving blights and rain-storms in his wake.
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