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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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'I am afraid for you.'
'I'm afraid for me, too.'
'Terribly afraid. I fear for your life.'
'My love, I fear for my life, too. And for yours. You are in danger as long as you are with me.'
'I will not leave you!'
'I know. Whatever this is, we are in it together.'
'Yes. What are our plans now?'
'Now we go to Kansas.'
'Oh, good! Then we are not driving to Mexico?'
'Hon, I don't even know how to drive a car.'
We came out in a basement garage and walked up a ramp to a side street. There we walked several blocks away from the Smith Building, picked up a cruising taxi, rode it to the Texas & Pacific Station, there picked up a taxi at the taxi rank, and rode it to Fort Worth, twenty-five miles west. Margrethe was very quiet on the trip. I did not ask her what she was thinking about because I knew: It can't be happy-making to discover that a person you fell in love with was mixed up in some shenanigan that smelled Of gangsters and rackets'. I made myself a solemn promise never to mention the matter to her.
In Fort Worth I had the hackie drop us on its most stylish shopping street, letting him pick it. Then I said to Marga, 'Darling, I'm about to buy you a heavy gold chain.'
'Goodness, darling! I don't need a gold chain.'
'We need it. Marga, the first time I was in this world with you, in Konge Knut - I learned that here the dollar was soft, not backed by gold, and every price I have seen today confirms that
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