"L. Sprague De Camp - The Hostage of Zir" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Camp L Sprague)

Castanhoso asked: "Do you do this sort of thing often?"

"Very often! All the time, in fact!"

"It sounds strenuous, Senhor."

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"It is the esspice of Me. And now my adored one awaits. Arriba! Off went
Guzman-Vidal.

"Whew," said Castanhoso. "Did you have that, too?"

"Oh, yes," said Reith. "One time Santiago hid in my cabin when his wife was
looking for him to brain him with a camera tripod. Valerie Mulroy had made
passes at him, and he didn't discourage her. If that's married life, I'm glad I'm
single."

"In your business you practically have to be, because of the time lag. How do
you make that ass Pride shut up?"

"Short of hitting him with a club, I don't know. There's at least one in every
group." Reith yawned. "Now I have to eat with my lambs. Then I'm supposed to
study a couple of your foul Krishnan languages, but I'm so tired I'll probably fall
asleep in the first declension."

"Gozashtandou and Durou are not too hard. They are as much alike as, say,
Spanish is like Portuguese, and they have fewer irregularities than most
European tongues. Katai-Jhogorai is something else; it belongs to another
language family."

"We're to depend on Prince Tashian's man as interpreter there."

"Watch yourself; I mistrust that Tashian."

"What's the matter with him?" asked Reith.

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"I do not know. It is just a feeling. In police work, we tend to get suspicious of
everybody."