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star shone out briefly and faded again. Then silently a great doorway was outlined, though not a crack or joint had been visible before. Slowly it divided in the middle and swung outwards inch by inch, until both doors lay back against the wall. Through the opening a shadowy stair could be seen climbing steeply up; but beyond the lower steps the darkness was deeper than the night. The track. The opening word was inscribed on the archway all the time! The translation
should have been: Say "Friend" and enter. I had only to speak the Elvish word for friend and the doors opened. Quite simple. Too simple for a learned lore-master in these suspicious days. Those were happier times. Now let us go!'He strode forward and set his foot on the lowest step. But at that moment several things happened. Frodo felt something seize him by the ankle, and he fell with a cry. Bill the pony gave a wild neigh of fear, and turned tail and dashed away along the lakeside into the darkness. Sam leaped after him, and then hearing Frodo's cry he ran back again, weeping and cursing. The others swung round and saw the waters of the lake seething, as if a host of snakes were swimming up from the southern end.Out from the water a long sinuous Company stared in wonder.`I was wrong after all,' said Gandalf, 'and Gimli too. Merry, of all people, was on the right tentacle had crawled; it was pale-green and luminous and wet. Its fingered end had hold of Frodo's foot and was dragging him into the water. Sam on his knees was now slashing at it with a knife.

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¡¡¡¡'It looks like him,' I replied, as carelessly as I could. ¡¡¡¡Uriah stopped short, put his hands between his great knobs of knees, and doubled himself up with laughter. With perfectly silent laughter. Not a sound escaped from him. I was so repelled by his odious behaviour, particularly by this concluding instance, that I turned away without any ceremony; and left him doubled up in the middle of the garden, like a scarecrow in want of support. ¡¡¡¡It was not on that evening; but, as I well remember, on the next evening but one, which was a Sunday;

that I took Agnes to see Dora. I had arranged the visit, beforehand, with Miss Lavinia; and Agnes was expected to tea. ¡¡¡¡I was in a flutter of pride and anxiety; pride in my dear little betrothed, and anxiety that Agnes should like her. All the way to Putney, Agnes being inside the stage-coach, and I outside, I pictured Dora to myself in every one of the pretty looks I knew so well; now making up my mind that I should like her to look exactly as she looked at such a time, and then doubting whether I should not prefer her looking as she looked at such another time; and almost worrying myself into a fever about it

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cooled himself in the shade of the porch, or stood beneath the yew-tree, with his hand to his forehead, glowering at me going by. But the peace and rest of the old Sunday morning were on everything, except me. That was the difference. I felt quite had conjured up, of my mother in her youth and beauty, weeping by the fire, and my aunt relenting to her, I hardly think I should have had the courage to go on until next day. But it always went before me, and I followed. ¡¡¡¡I got, that Sunday, through three-and-twenty miles on the straight road, though not very easily, for I was new to that kind of toil. I see myself, as evening closes in, coming over the bridge at Rochester, footsore and tired, and eating bread that I had bought for supper. One or two little houses, with the notice, 'Lodgings for

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a piece of parchment from his pocket, with a slight fumbling of embarrassment. ¡¡¡¡`What is it?' said she. ¡¡¡¡`A marriage licence.' ¡¡¡¡`O no, sir - no!' she said quickly, starting back. ¡¡¡¡`You will not? Why is that?' ¡¡¡¡And as he asked the question a disappointment which was not entirely the disappointment of thwarted duty crossed d'Urberville face. It was unmistakably a symptom that something of his old passion for her had been revived; duty and desire ran hand-in-hand. ¡¡¡¡`Surely,' he began again, in more impetuous tones, and then looked round at the labourer who turned the slicer. ¡¡¡¡Tess, too, felt that the argument could not be ended there. Informing the man that a gentleman had come to see her, with whom she wished to walk a little way, she moved off with d'Urberville across the zebra-striped field. When they reached the first newly-sloughed section he held out his hand to help her over it; but she stepped forward on the summits of the earth-rolls as if she did not see him.

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"Eleven-thirty."
　　Chief-Inspector Davy nodded, refused a taxi andmoved slowly away along Pond Street. A car roared past him close to the kerb, and pulledup outside Bertram's Hotel, with a scream of brakes. Chief-Inspector Davy turned his headsoberly and noted the number plate. FAN 2266. There was something reminiscent about thatnumber, though he couldn't for the moment place it.
　　Slowly he retraced his steps. He had barely reachedthe entrance before the driver of the car, who had gone through the doors a moment or twobefore, came out again. He and the car

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"I don't know yet. I've barely got there. They're all very dull. Ireally wanted to know how much money I've got."
　　"So it's financialinformation you really want?"
　　"Yes," said Elvira. "I've got some money, I know. Is it a lot?"
　　Egerton was serious now.
　　"Yes," he said. "You've got a lot of money. Your father was a veryrich man. You were his only child. When he died, the title and the estate went to acousin. He didn't like the cousin, so he left all his personalproperty, which was considerable, to his daughter – to you,Elvira. You're a very rich woman, or will be, when you aretwenty-one."
　　"You mean I am not rich now?"
　　"Yes," said Egerton, "you're rich now, but the money is not yours todispose of until you are twenty-one or marry. Until that time it is in the hands of yourTrustees. Luscombe, myself and another." He smiled at her. "We haven't embezzled it or anything like that. It's still there. In fact, we've increased yourcapital considerably by investments."

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Leia Organa sat silently before the huge display screen on which Yavin and its moonswere displayed. A large red dot moved steadily toward the fourth of those satellites.Dodonna and several other field commanders of the Alliance stood behind her, theireyes also intent on the screen. Tiny green flecks began to appear around the fourthmoon, to coalesce into the small clouds like hovering emerald gnats.Dodonna put a hand on her shoulder. It was comforting. "The red represents theprogress of the Imperial battle station as it moves deeper into Yavin's system." "Our ships are all away," a Commander behind him declared. A single man stood alone in the cylindrical hold, secured to the top of a rapier-thin tower. Staring through fixed-mount electrobinoculars, he was the sole visiblerepresentative of the vast technology buried in the green purgatory below. Muted cries, moans, and primeval gurglings drifted up to him from the highesttreetops. Some were frightening, some less so, but none were as indicative of powerheld in check as the four silvery starships which burst into view above the observer.Keeping a tight formation, they exploded through humid air to vanish in seconds intothe morning cloud cover far above. Sound-shadows rattled the trees moments later,in a forlorn attempt to catch up to the engines which had produced them. Slowly assuming attack formations combining X- and Y-wing ships, the variousfighters began to move outward from the moon, out past the oceanic atmosphere ofgiant Yavin, out to meet the technologic executioner. The man who had observed the by-play between Biggs and Luke now loweredhis glare visor and adjusted his half-automatic, half-manual gunsights as he checkedthe ships to either side of him. "Blue boys," he addressed his intership pickup, "this is Blue Leader. Adjustyour selectors and check in. Approaching target at one point three…"

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the friendless condition in which he lay; and I said my old master and foster-brother had a claim on my services as strong as his own. Besides, I reminded him that the child Hareton was his wife's nephew, and, in the absence of nearer kin, he ought to act as its guardian; and he ought to and must inquire how the property was left, and look over the concerns of his brother-in-law. He was unfit for attending to such matters then, but he bid me speak to his lawyer; and at length permitted me to go. His lawyer had been Earnshaw's also: I called at the village, and asked him to accompany me. He shook his head, and advised that Heathcliff should be let alone; affirming, if the truth were known, Hareton would be found little else than a beggar.
`His father died in debt,' he said; `the whole property is mortgaged, and the sole chance for the natural heir is to allow him an opportunity of creating some interest in the creditor's heart, that he may be inclined to deal leniently towards him.'
When I reached the Heights, I explained that I had come to see everything carried on decently; and Joseph, who appeared in sufficient distress, expressed satisfaction at my presence. Mr Heathcliff said he did not perceive that I was wanted; but I might stay and order the arrangements for the funeral, if I chose.
`Correctly,' he remarked, `that fool's body should be buried at the crossroads, without ceremony of any kind. I happened to leave him ten minutes yesterday