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At last, she took a deep breath. Can't be helped, he thought. No -he could and did hope that, when she surfaced this time, she would haveevaded the patrol boats. I didn't have the chance to adjust everything perfectly.

And the courtyard, no longINTo THE DARKNESS199bright with flowers as it had been through spring and summer, seemed afar less pleasant refuge than it would have been then. Leaving the beach and returning to the barracks also transformeIstvan from tourist back into soldier, a transformation he would just asoon not have made. There's aspot wide enough for two, I think, he said. If 1, the foreminister of a sovereign kingdom, am forbidden to see the representaof another sovereign kingd