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Suppress, if you can, your righteoussupernatural anger with him, and tell me
why you hate him so. When he had at last, in deep concentration,made several
marks on the paper he threw it to Chloe.
You dont mean to tell me hes merely
altruistic?
Go before the Foreign Secretary andthat Gadarene swine
return.
Sheldrake, andLord Arglay would probably know a good deal about it. Ive
got something else to do than to cure oldwomen of paralytic delirium.
I know
Arglays a legal hurdy-gurdy, Sir Giles said, but even hewouldnt play that
tune.
I suppose so, Sir Giles meditatively answered.
Now that we know we create
gods, do not let us hesitate in the work.
I wouldhave it to be something very
strong andsatisfying. And we only want to see the past from thepresent.
My dear
child, he said,do you really think-? He blinked inwardly at the phrase and
proceeded.
Why, that we shall see, Lord Arglay said. Practically nothing at the
moment, Lord Birlesmere substituted. As the others jumped and gaped Arglay said
to Chloe, You cant do anymore.
Lord Arglaylooked at him and went back to
Chloe.
But I did so hateto see him sitting there, and know what he was doing.
He didnteven know who half the people he had seen were. They had been extremely
delightful-incidents andcompanions alike-she was an ungrateful creature.
But Im
damned if he seemsto, unless the Stones gone wrong. And this point seemed to be
the memory of Mr.
I feel an awful ass, Chloe told him, going for Sir Giles like
that. And when a traditional thing appears to produceunusual results we cant
help being affected. He blinked inwardly at the phrase and proceeded.
The
physical discomfort of thesensation was almost unbearable, but Lord Arglay held
on. She looks as if she were going through it too.
I would have it to be the
End of Desire indeed, Chloe said.
But I did so hateto see him sitting there,
and know what he was doing.
Transit through time and space, Sir Giles corrected
him. We are, he thought to himself, becoming anthropomorphic a littlerapidly. I
will offer you twoalternatives, he said.
Why had she rushed round andflown at
Sir Giless throat?
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