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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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. When Steve asked, if you agreed with me about Judgment Day and you told him you did agree. Marga, I can't tell you how much it has worried me that you have not chosen to be received back into the arms of Jesus. With Judgment Day rushing toward us and no way to know the hour - well, I've worried. I do worry. But apparently you are finding your way back to the light but had not yet discussed it with me.'
We walked perhaps twenty paces while Margrethe did not say anything.
At last she said quietly, 'Beloved, I would put your mind at rest. If I could. I cannot.'
'So? I do not understand. Will you explain?'
'I did not tell Steve that I agreed with you. I said to him that I did not disagree.'
'But that's the same thing!'
'No, darling. What I did not say to Steve but could have said, in, full honesty is that I will never publicly disagree with my husband about anything. Any disagreement with you I will discuss with you in private. Not in Steve's presence. Not anyone's.'
I chewed that over, let several possible comments go unsaid - at last said, 'Thank you, Margrethe.'
'Beloved, I do it for my own dignity as well as for yours. All my life I have hated the sight of husband and wife disagreeing - disputing - quarreling in public. If you say that the sun is covered with bright green puppy dogs, I will not disagree in public.'
Ah, but it is!'
'Sir?' She stopped, and looked startled
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