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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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. Because I
am not yet bored with you. It's not your brain, and not your spiritual qualities
of which you almost don't have any. I lust after your sweaty little body."
"Oh, Richard!"
"Before we bathe? Or after?"
"Uh... both?"
"That's my girl!"
XIV
"Democracy can withstand anything but democrats."
J. HARSHAW 1904-
"All kings is mostly rapscallions.**
MARK TWAIN 1835-1910
While we were bathing I said, "You surprised me, hon, by knowing how to
herd a rolligon."
"Not half as much as you surprised me when it turned out that your cane was
a rifle."
"Ah, yes, that reminds me- Would it bother you to cover for me?"
"Of course not, Richard, but how?"
"My trick cane stops being a protection when people know what it is. But,
if all the shooting is attributed to you, then people won't learn what it is."
Gwen answered thoughtfully, "I don't see. Or don't understand. Everybody in
the bus saw you using it as a rifle."
"Did they, now? The fight took place in vacuum-dead silence. So no one
heard any shots. Who saw me shoot? Auntie? She was wounded before I joined the
party. Only seconds before but we're talking about seconds. Bill? Busy with
Auntie. Ek-aterina and her kids? I doubt that the kids saw anything they
understood, and their mother suffered the worst shock a mother can; she won't be
much of a witness, if at all
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