Title: The Narrow Land
Author(s): Jack Vance
Publisher(s): DAW
Pages: 249
Year: 1982
Format: LIT
Language: English
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«What$prime;s wrong, sir? Taken sick?» «No, no,» said Mario. «I$prime;m all right. Just dozed off.» He rose to his feet, stepped on the Choreops Strip, passed the central fountain flagged with aventurine quartz, stepped off at the Malabar Pavilion, wandered under the great bay trees out onto Kesselyn Avenue. Slowly, heavily, he plodded through the wholesale florist shops, and at Pacific, let the escalator take him to the third level, where he stepped on the fast ped-strip of the Grand Footway to the Concourse.
His progress had been unconscious, automatic, as if his body made the turns at its$prime; own volition. Now at the foot of the Aetherian Block he stepped off the strip, breathing a little heavily. The body of Ralston Ebery was spongy, in poor condition. And Mario felt an unholy gloating as he thought of Ralston Ebery$prime;s body sweating, puffing, panting, fasting-working off its lard.
A face suddenly thrust into his, a snarling hate-brimmed face. Teeth showed, the pupils of the eyes were like the black-tipped poison darts of the Mazumbwe Backlands. The face was that of a young-old man-unlined, but gray-haired; innocent but wise, distorted by the inner thrash and coil of his hate. Through tight teeth and corded jaw muscles the young-old man snarled:
«You filthy misbegotten dung-thief, do you hope to live? You venom, you stench. It would soil me to kill you. But I shall!»
Mario stepped back. The man was a stranger. «I$prime;m sorry. You must be mistaken,» he said, before it dawned that Ralston Ebery$prime;s deeds were now accountable to him.
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