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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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. I just
want to promise you everything a wife should promise."
"You're sure, Gwen? Aren't you being hasty?" Confound it, promises a woman
makes in bed should not be binding.
"I am not being hasty. I decided to marry you more than a year ago."
"You did? Well, I'll be- Hey' We met less than a year ago. At the Day One
Ball. July twentieth. I remember."
"True."
"Well?"
"'Well* what, dear? I decided to many you before we met. Do you have a
problem with that? I don't. I didn't."
"Mmm. I had better tell you some things. My past contains episodes I don't
boast about. Not exactly dishonest but somewhat shady. And Ames is not the name
I was bom with."
"Richard, I will be proud to be addressed as 'Mrs. Ames.* Or as... 'Mrs.
Campbell'... Colin."
I said nothing, loudly-then added, "What more do you know?"
She looked me firmly in the eye, did not smile. "All I need to know.
Colonel Colin Campbell, known as 'Killer' Campbell to his troops... and in the
dispatches. A rescuing angel to the students of Percival Lowell Academy.
Richard, or Colin, my oldest daughter was one of those students."
"I'll be eternally damned."
"I doubt it."
"And because of this you intend to marry me?"
"No, dear man. That reason sufficed a year ago. But now I've had many
months to discover the human being behind the storybook hero
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