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"What is the purport of this interruption?" asked DuBois as the volume was handed to him.
"This book fell from the prisoner's jacket last night and John VanBrunt, the jailor, picked it up. This morning he noticed that it had been freshly bound, and he ripped open the leather and found this letter between the boards."
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Brodaa choked: "You cannot touch Amisura. Your spear will turn--"Abercrombie&Fitch
"My spear is lost," said Nisana, loudly enough for all to hear. "But Aksona, Amana, two other men of magic--those I saw killed at Abro Samiraa's village. Vestoian spears was not turn in the hand--I saw." She stepped forward, fingering her white-stone knife, and the fat Amisura cringed, squeaking.
Wright cried, "I forbid it, Nisana. Let them go. Brodaa!"Abercrombie&Fitch
Brodaa said quickly, "He asks sacrifice--you, Paul, Pakriaa--"
Nisana laughed again. She dropped her white-stone dagger on the ground and slapped the thin witch in the face. The crowd gasped and shrank back. Such a man, Paul knew, was altogether holy, never to be touched; one must not even look him in the eye. But Nisana slapped him again and shoved him sprawling. She caught a pole of Amisura's litter, heaved at it, and he tumbled like a red melon. "Now let them choose!" She came back to Paul with grin and swagger, patting her scarred chest. "I am little Spearman. I break images too."Abercrombie&Fitch
And the pygmies were choosing, not as she or the witches had hoped--choosing headlong retreat from this sacrilege, dissolving away into the forest with sick-eyed backward looks. Paul saw Amisura weeping, humping pitiably back to his litter on all fours, and heard Pakriaa laugh. The two soldiers who had carried Amisura brought the litter nearer, not daring to touch him; when he flopped on it they bore him away. The other witch had run blindly, covering his insulted face, and Wright said like a machine, "Let them go--let them--"Abercrombie&Fitch
When the panic was over, thirty followers remained....Abercrombie&Fitch
In the early evening Mijok reported, after another treetop survey, that the last of the kaksma hills was about three miles southwest. West of them the jungle was level; it was time to turn. Elis had slipped away and returned with two heavy carcasses like wild boars. Sears had named these stodgy animals pigmors. The mor suffix, he had insisted, was an intensely scientific shorthand for "more or less, damn it." The meat was high-flavored and coarse but safe.... Hearing Mijok's news, Brodaa sighed, thinking perhaps of the long history of her people, the groping for a narrow path of survival among endless perils. "We say the great uskaran hears a leaf fall to earth from a thousand paces away but the kaksma hears the leaf divide the air as it falls. Oh--three of your Charin miles, that is great length. Maybe enough."Abercrombie&Fitch
The tremendous sheer spires of the coastal range, Mijok said, were visible in the southwest though nearly a hundred miles off; it would be a clear sweet night, he thought, with no clouds and many stars. They should go at least fifteen miles due west; then the course would be southwest rather than south, to miss the hills....Abercrombie&Fitch
"My spear is lost," said Nisana, loudly enough for all to hear. "But Aksona, Amana, two other men of magic--those I saw killed at Abro Samiraa's village. Vestoian spears was not turn in the hand--I saw." She stepped forward, fingering her white-stone knife, and the fat Amisura cringed, squeaking.
Wright cried, "I forbid it, Nisana. Let them go. Brodaa!"Abercrombie&Fitch
Brodaa said quickly, "He asks sacrifice--you, Paul, Pakriaa--"
Nisana laughed again. She dropped her white-stone dagger on the ground and slapped the thin witch in the face. The crowd gasped and shrank back. Such a man, Paul knew, was altogether holy, never to be touched; one must not even look him in the eye. But Nisana slapped him again and shoved him sprawling. She caught a pole of Amisura's litter, heaved at it, and he tumbled like a red melon. "Now let them choose!" She came back to Paul with grin and swagger, patting her scarred chest. "I am little Spearman. I break images too."Abercrombie&Fitch
And the pygmies were choosing, not as she or the witches had hoped--choosing headlong retreat from this sacrilege, dissolving away into the forest with sick-eyed backward looks. Paul saw Amisura weeping, humping pitiably back to his litter on all fours, and heard Pakriaa laugh. The two soldiers who had carried Amisura brought the litter nearer, not daring to touch him; when he flopped on it they bore him away. The other witch had run blindly, covering his insulted face, and Wright said like a machine, "Let them go--let them--"Abercrombie&Fitch
When the panic was over, thirty followers remained....Abercrombie&Fitch
In the early evening Mijok reported, after another treetop survey, that the last of the kaksma hills was about three miles southwest. West of them the jungle was level; it was time to turn. Elis had slipped away and returned with two heavy carcasses like wild boars. Sears had named these stodgy animals pigmors. The mor suffix, he had insisted, was an intensely scientific shorthand for "more or less, damn it." The meat was high-flavored and coarse but safe.... Hearing Mijok's news, Brodaa sighed, thinking perhaps of the long history of her people, the groping for a narrow path of survival among endless perils. "We say the great uskaran hears a leaf fall to earth from a thousand paces away but the kaksma hears the leaf divide the air as it falls. Oh--three of your Charin miles, that is great length. Maybe enough."Abercrombie&Fitch
The tremendous sheer spires of the coastal range, Mijok said, were visible in the southwest though nearly a hundred miles off; it would be a clear sweet night, he thought, with no clouds and many stars. They should go at least fifteen miles due west; then the course would be southwest rather than south, to miss the hills....Abercrombie&Fitch