| 331 | 332 | 333 | 334 | 335 |
| 1 | 90 | 179 | 269 | 358 |
|
attacks there would be forming other attacks, even now. Whether we can
kill this Food or not, most assuredly we can kill your sons! You reckon
too much on the things of yesterday, on the happenings of a mere score
of years, on one battle. You have no sense of the slow course of
history. I offer this convention for the sake of lives, not because it
can change the inevitable end. If you think that your poor two dozen of
Giants can resist all the forces of our people and of all the alien
peoples who will come to our aid; if you think you can change Humanity
at a blow, in a single generation, and alter the nature and stature of
Man--"
He flung out an arm. "Go to them now, Sir. I see them, for all the evil
they have done, crouching among their wounded--"
He stopped, as though he had glanced at Redwood's son by chance.
There came a pause.
"Go to them," he said.
"That is what I want to do."
"Then go now...."
He turned and pressed the button of a bell; without, in immediate
response, came a sound of opening doors and hastening feet.
333
Page
Quick Jump
|