Only take care you dont get caught up in the past too, pallisersaid. I wonder
why Giles shot across like that.
Sheldrake, andLord Arglay would probably know
a good deal about it.
As Iunderstand it, all the past still exists and its
merely a matter ofchoosing your point of view.
That was the impression I got,
Palliser said. We must find out what it can do; you must, Sir Giles.
I knowthat
only last Friday I bought from Mr.
Whether its cruelty depends on what his past
was like.
I shall be extremely careful, Lord Arglay told her.
This
consciousness went on repeating itself again andagain. I feel an awful ass,
Chloe told him, going for Sir Giles like that.
ButArglay and this girl-you do
or you say you do. That was the impression I got, Palliser said.
I wonder, Lord
Arglaysaid, still staring at it, if pondon caught the connexion. He metSir
Giless eyes and shivered a little. Whether its cruelty depends on what his past
was like.
He paused, bowed,added something in a low voice to Mr.
We are, he
thought to himself, becoming anthropomorphic a littlerapidly. Lord Arglay
looked at the Type before them. At present the successful use of the Stone
depended entirely onthe individual will.
He stepped to the table and picked up
one ofthe Types. Who was it, long before, had used those words?
He leantforward
a little and said, softly, butclearly, Chloe. Well, said Lord Arglay, I will
make you a fair proposal -I will ifyou will. So if I believe it must be in a
god consonantwith me.
And again the voice that was Arglays or theStones said
within her: Go on, child. But you Puritanshave always made such a fuss about
vivisection, let alone human,vivisection.
The conversation seemed to him tobe
becoming obscene.
And this point seemed to be the memory of Mr.
Sheldrake, his
mouth open indismay, caught up two or three of the Stones and looked at them.
Pondon nowlike a tiny speck was right up against him, and then the
discomfortvanished. He doesnt care about it, only about the wayit works.
Then
he broke out: Do you mean totell me Arglay can read my mind and I cant read
his?
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