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From: | Freddie Carlson |
Subject: | [Javaweb-discuss] holdup plate |
Date: | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:39:41 +0200 |
Before either of the young men couldspeak, Betty
had followed it and sat down by it.
They stood round the dwarf while, slowly and in
uttersilence, it scrambled clumsily in. It left behind ita softly shining trail as
if it were the streak of a snails path.
And now inthis happier world he had thought to
enter, a thing as extreme struckhim. This was the Return, and this theoperation of
inflexible law. But the noise was multiple; that scream was not solitary. She gasped
out to Jonathan: Let go-you must.
It was the most startling and the most dangerous.
Hervoice came out with a summons that was like a thin shriek: Betty! The Acts of the
City were in operation; she felt their direction.
Betty took her hand off Richards
shoulder.
If were to do it, lets go now- He went to the
tableand took up the canvas. She added, more quietly and snivelling: I shall catch a
dreadfulcold.
That Betty wasquite unlike the doll she helplessly
held. The dwarf sprang jerkily into thelit hall.
After that instinctive effort to escape,
sheaccepted that; she even gloried in it.
Lester was exposed to the true method;Evelyn was
seeking the false. But she was alsoaware of a certain difference in her
surroundings. They stood round the dwarf while, slowly and in uttersilence, it
scrambled clumsily in.
It was time the magicaldwarf was driven back to
Simon. She was here-and Richard and Betty,and Jonathan too, were here for this
purpose.
The dwarfs head jerked, and turned as far as it
could from one to theother. It left behind ita softly shining trail as if it were
the streak of a snails path. She said: No, really, Jon; its too silly.
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