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He rumbled for a moment. "A soldier lives in a bigger world he tries to matter in. He's protectin' that world and being admired for it. In old, old days his world was maybe a day's march across. Later it got to be continents. They tried to make it planets, but it didn't work. But there've got to be enemies to protect a world against, or a soldier isn't important. He's got no glamour. Y'see?"
"Who's been with you?" said he. "There've been Tom and I; and Calder Jones was there for a while. I think he killed himself somewhere. And there was Pollock, and your friend Grindley, and a chap whose name I don't know who dropped out of heaven about half-way in the run; and there was another man whose back I saw just now; there he is, by heavens, it's Vavasor! I didn't know he was here."
"I was just having a little fun on the side nothing serious, mind you! But of course I didn't tell Flora every little thing . No man does! There've been other girls other women " "Tracey isn't worse than the other men!" Flora flamed up. "He's such a darling that all the girls pet him, and spoil him " Dundee could stand no more of Miles' complacent acceptance of his own rakishness.
It did not have wheels. It rested on what looked like two short, thick runners like skids. "This isn't fantasy, either," said Soames. "There've been wheelless vehicles built lately. They're held an inch or so above the ground by columns of air pouring out. They ride on cushions of air. But they have to have perfect highways. It isn't likely that a child would draw them if she hadn't seen them."
Had it been done for the purpose of inflicting a more frightful wound if it struck the captain? "There've been other shots, too," went on Marlowe. "One of my watchmen was wounded the night before. It didn't took like a serious wound, in the leg. Yet the poor fellow seems to be in a bad way, they tell me." "How is that?" asked Craig, glancing up quickly from studying the bullet.
It was pretty jumpy work, I can tell you, sitting tight and gambling with it for ten blasted days. Any other man would have gone clean off his chump with worrying over it. There've been times when I've felt like it myself. It was infernal when you think what I stood to lose." I said that was all rot. It was his beastly egoism. He didn't stand to lose more than I did.
He had carefully kept secret the choice of Garen Three as the next planet to be invaded by the pseudo-pirate ship. It was upsetting to find that Gwenlyn knew about it. Blast Talents, Incorporated! "The dowsing Talent," said Gwenlyn, "says there's a battleship aground there. There've been some riots. The people of Garen don't like Mekin, either. Strange? The battleship is to overawe them."
If there ain't that bandy-legged, crop-eared, broken-nosed auto Sealman came to offer Mrs. Gaylor last winter, and wanted to palm off on me!" he grumbled to himself. "How in creation did that maverick get hold of Mrs. May? Bet there've been bribes flyin' around somewhere."
What graven image have I bin worshipin'? What gods of wood and stone have I bin bowin' down before in my blindness? There've bin times when I thought a good deal more of a Commissary tent then I did of a church, but I got cured of that as soon as I got a square meal. I don't see where I have bin guilty of idolatry. "On the Folly of Self-Pride," he read from the next one.
FELIX: Oh, we don't know how many millions of years since earth first stirred. SILAS: Then we are what we are because through all that time there've been them that wanted to be more than life had been. FELIX: That's it, Uncle Silas. SILAS: But why, then we aren't finished yet! FEJEVARY: No. We take it on from here. FEJEVARY: Go back on the dreaming and the daring of a million years.
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