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Show hung it there for love of me." Then she described to Janni that ceremony, a small band of leaders standing gravely around, watching with their large, pale eyes, their delicate hands clasped in a prayerful attitude under their chins. Ah, how the buffers will fill withal, for Dr'Anya had keyed in many, many reports and many, many requests for justice pertaining to the unfortunate Zetts. And then, Dr'Anya's History had been fed into the Governor, too, chapter by chapter as it was finished, and it contained -Saint Ida keep us!-many times more unclassifiable terms than her material on the Zetts. For instance, the term Provincials. The Provincials were the wild folk beyond the Tartars-in the land labeled The Provinces, mapped out and divided at length by the Doctors but never settled by them or their followers, save by those who wished to escape from the Commendiums to a wilder kind of freedom. There were four kingdoms of Provincials over there in the other half of BauerWorlde's one continent. Dr'Anya estimated that they numbered at least fifty-thousand- all warlike, all back in the OldeWorlde and enamored of that archaic type of chivalry, truly and no mistake. For they were in the most part the penultimate iconoclasts among the BauerWorlde iconoclasts who left the JupiterSpaceLab, many of the Provincials leaving the Commendiums after the people there felt constrained to accept technology when the FifthSleeper came. Bettina Seljuk felt her emanations much later than that, for some thirty or forty TwelveMonths, mayhap, for she and her Sisters had been well isolated at the southern end of the Commendiums. Nevertheless, the devils of technology arrived at length and the emanations appeared forthwith- 95 |
