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Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing, Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, Will, I mean. Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.
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What are you looking at, foreigner?” the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn’t smile at his captors like that. “I’m just making sure I can remember you,” Gilan told him. “Never know when that might be useful.
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What do you mean, Araluen? Death? Halt made a careless gesture. The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.
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Shall I call the others back in? He nodded. Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.
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Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. Black bear, he repeated. It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle. I'd guess so, Will put in. I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.
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It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.
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Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.
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The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.
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You can always win points. Winning people’s respect is a lot more important.
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It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
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You should have left him to wander,” Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. “Would you?” he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. “No,” he admitted.
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Oh, it's a case of 'they think I'll think that they'll do A, so they'll do B because I wouldn't think they'd think of that but then because I might think I know what they're thinking they'll do A after all because I wouldn't think they'd think that way,' Will said
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Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses. He wasn't sure about the last two statements, but they seemed logical to him.
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Halt Halt, said Gilan stepping out into the open.
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All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
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Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.
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If they invent a four legged chicken, Will said, Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.
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Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.
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I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.
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But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.
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