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第二部 基地的寻找 第一章 艾嘉蒂娅

属类： 双语小说 【分类】魔幻小说 -[作者: 艾萨克-阿西莫夫] 阅读：[9538]
PART II SEARCH BY THE FOUNDATION
《第二基地》是“基地”系列三部曲的最后一部。“谜”一般的第二基地的存在成了众矢之的，骡要铲除它，而第一基地的移民为了一个完全不同的理由也必须找到它，但是它究竟在哪里呢？这部故事就是各方人马找寻第二基地的传奇。骡倾全力寻找并铲除第二基地，却失败了。随后，基地人员也千方百计寻找第二基地，因为他们不愿把建立新帝国的功业拱手让人。谁也没想到，寻找的线索竟维系在一位小女孩身上。十四岁的艾嘉蒂娅怕得要死，她究竟发现了有关第二基地的什么秘密呢？
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[p1]艾嘉蒂娅·达瑞尔以稳重的声音，对着听写机的输入端朗读道：

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[p2]“谢顿计划的展望，艾·达瑞尔作。”

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然后她就暗自想到，以后自己成为一位大作家时，要以“艾卡蒂”这个笔名发表那些不朽的作品，就只用“艾卡蒂”，根本不要冠上任何姓氏。而“艾·达瑞尔”这样子的署名，则是《作文与修辞》这门课的作业中规定使用的——真是没有品味。同班的其他同学也都得这样做，只有丸里萨斯·旦那个男生例外。因为当他第一次那样念出自己名字时，全班同学都笑成了一团。“艾嘉蒂娅”又只是个小女孩的名字，只因为她祖母小时候曾经用过，所以她就要被迫接受——她的父母根本一点想像力都没有。

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前天她刚刚过完十四岁生日。大人们似乎应该体认到一个简单的事实，那就是她已经长大成人，应该改口叫她“艾卡蒂”了。她突然不高兴地噘起嘴来，因为她又想起了父亲刚才对自己说的话。父亲的视线勉强从阅读镜移开一下，抬起头来一口气说道：“可是如果你想假装自己已经十九岁，艾嘉蒂垭，那么当你二十五岁的时候，男生们都会以为你已经三十了，你又该怎么办呢？”

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现在她正坐在自己专用的大号扶手椅中，两只手臂伸展开来，抬头就能看见梳妆台上的镜子。不过她的一只脚丫挡住了一点视线，因为拖鞋正挂在大脚趾上摇晃着。于是她将脚收回来，把身子坐端正，脖子很不自然地伸得笔直。这样一来，她仿佛就能让自己又长高两寸，身材因而显得雅致多了。

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她花了一会儿的工夫，仔细端详着自己的脸庞——太胖啦。于是她紧抿着嘴，拉长下巴，并且从各个角度打量眼前这张瘦弱的脸孔。她又伸出舌头舔了一下嘴唇，再将湿润的唇微微噘起，然后缓缓地垂下眼睑，表现出历尽沧桑的世故。喔，天哪，自己的双颊为什么是粉红色的，真丑！

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她试着将手指摆在双眼外缘，将眼角微微扯斜，装出内围星系妇女那种神秘而具有异国风情的慵懒状。可是这么一来，双手就把脸孔遮住一半，没法子看清楚自己的模样。

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随后她收起了下巴，想要照照自己的侧面。她侧转头，将眼睛尽量瞥向镜子，扭得脖子都酸疼了。她好像十分感慨，故意用低八度的声调说：“真的，爸爸，如果你以为，我会有一点点在乎那些笨男生怎么想，你就实在……”

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此时她忽然想起手中的听写机仍然是开着的，马上发出了可怕的尖叫：“喔，天哪！”然后立刻将它关了起来。

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结果听写机仍然吐出了半张淡紫色的纸，那张纸的左侧还有美丽的桃色花边。上面赫然印着：

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谢顿计划的展望艾·达瑞尔作

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真的，爸爸，如果你以为，我会有一点点在乎那些笨男生怎么想，你就实在。

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哦，天哪！

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她急忙将那张纸拉出来，再帮机器换上另一张纸。

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不过她脸上的焦急表情很快就消失，宽宽的小嘴巴又扯出一个满意的笑容。她把抽出的那张纸凑到鼻端，以优雅的动作轻轻闻了一下。真好，就应该是这种高雅迷人的香味，而且纸上的笔迹也没有话说。

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这台机器是两天前送来的，是父亲送给她的成年生日礼物。

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她记得当初曾对父亲说：“爸爸，可是每一个人——班上每一个稍微有那么一点点志气的人，每个都有那么一台。只有那些老古董才会用打字机……”

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推销员也对她父亲说：“我们这种听写机既轻巧又好用，再也没有别的型号能比得上。它可以根据言语中的含意，列印出正确的文字和标点符号。您自然可以看得出来，它是学生们的良伴，因为它会鼓励使用者注意语气与呼吸，惟有这样才能让它印出正确的字。此外，当然还要使用合宜而端庄的口气，才能得到正确的标点符号。”

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不过，父亲当时只想帮她买一台普通的打字机，好像真把她当成了一个老古董学者。

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可是当机器送来的时候，她却发现正是梦寐以求的那一种，害她感动得痛哭流涕——眼泪也许掉得太多了点，跟十四岁的成年生日不大相称。那台机器印出来的字，是纯粹女性化的娟秀字迹，看起来优雅、美观而迷人。

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即使是刚才的那一句“喔，天哪！”听写机印出的字迹也非常具有魅力。

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然而不管机器多好，她也必须循规蹈矩地使用才行。所以她又端坐在椅子上，正经八百地将草稿放在面前，先挺胸再缩腹，小心翼翼地控制着呼吸，准备重新再试一遍。然后便以充满热情的语气，一字一句清清楚楚地朗诵道：

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“谢顿计划的展望，艾·达瑞尔作。”

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“我们这些有幸能在本行星的高效率、高素质、高等师资的教育体系之下，接受完整教育的学生，大家都对基地过去的历史了若指掌，这是绝对能够肯定的一件事情。”

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（哈！爱尔金小姐一定会对这个开头十分满意——那个刻薄的老巫婆。）

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“基地过去的历史，几乎始终在执行着哈里·谢顿的伟大计划，这两者根本就是一而二、二而一的。但是如今大多数人心目中的问题，则是这个伟大而睿智的计划是否能再继续下去，抑或将会遭到严重的破坏，或者根本早已被破坏殆尽。”

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“让我们先来浏览一下，谢顿计划至今为止已对人类揭示的几个重点，这也许是了解这个问题的最好办法。”

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（这一部分很容易写，因为她上个学期曾经修过《近代史》这门课。）

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“大约四个世纪之前，当第一银河帝国几乎已经瘫痪，眼看就要灭亡之时，有一个人——伟大的哈里·谢顿——预见了这个即将来临的末日。他与他的同僚利用心理史学——这门科学的辅杂数学如今早已失传——”

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（她忽然停下来，因为此时出现了一个小问题。她确定“复杂”的“复”应该读第三声，可是机器选的字好像有点不大对劲。喔，别担心，机器是绝对不可能出错的——）

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“预测出了银河历史巨流的整体发展方向。于是他们得以发现一个事实，就是倘若放任历史照这样子发展下去，帝国必将崩溃瓦解，接着便会出现至少三万年的无政府动乱状态，之后人类才有可能建立一个新的帝国。”

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“想要阻止帝国的衰亡为时已晚，然而，至少还有可能设法将动乱的时期缩短。因此谢顿计划的主要目的，就是要使第二帝国与第一帝国的间隙缩短为一个千年。如今已过了将近四个世纪，花开花落，花落花开，而计划的进行依旧不曾动摇。”

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“哈里·谢顿在银河中两个遥相对峙的端点，分别建立了一个基地。他为这两个基地所选取的各种条件，乃对应于心理史学问题的最佳数学解答。其中之一——我们的基地——设立在这个端点星上，集中了帝国时期所有的物理科学。凭借着这些科学，基地足以抵抗周围蛮荒王国的攻击——那些王国都是新近从帝国边缘脱离而独立称王的。”

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“事实上，基地由于代有英勇睿智的人物出现，例如塞佛·哈定以及侯伯·马洛，因此很快地就征服了那些短命的王国。这些英雄都能明智地诠释谢顿计划，并且领导我们克服了……”

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（根据她的草稿，下面的两个字应该也是“复杂”，但是她决定不要再冒一次险。）

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“艰难的情势。虽然数个世纪过去了，基地各个世界仍旧缅怀、崇敬他们的功绩。”

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“后来，基地建立了一个庞大的商业体系，控制了安纳克瑞昂与西维纳星区的大部分，甚至击败了苟延残喘的旧帝国最后的一击，也就是打败了帝国的最后一名大将——贝尔·里欧思。到了这个时候，谢顿计划似乎再也没有任何阻碍，谢顿所策划的每一个危机，都能在准确的时机出现，并且也一一被顺利化解。而每当一个危机解除之后，基地便再度向第二帝国以及永久和平迈出一大步。此时，”

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（念到这里，她一口气没喘过来，只能从牙缝中轻轻吐出这几个字。不过听写机照样将这些字印得清清楚楚、漂漂亮亮。）

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“第一帝国最后的残余势力烟消云散，只剩下了许多无能的军阀，统治着这一片硕大的残躯。”

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（“硕大的残躯”是她上周从超视的惊险影片中学到的。不过爱尔金小姐一向只看古典音乐与教学节目，所以绝对不会露出马脚。）

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“不料就在此时，骡出现了。”

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“这个异人根本不在谢顿的算计之中，他是一个突变种，他的产生是完全无法预测的。骡具有一种奇异而神秘的力量，能够控制并操纵人类的情感，因而可使所有人服从他的意志。在令人无法置信的短时间之内，他就成为一名征服者，以及一个帝国的开创者。最后，他竟然还征服了基地。”

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“不过他从未完成一统银河的壮举，因为他发动的第一波势如破竹的攻势，最后被一位睿智、勇敢、伟大的女性所遏止。”

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（现在她又碰到了那个老问题——父亲一直不准她透露自己是贝妲·达瑞尔的孙女。可是每个人都知道，贝妲几乎可算是有史以来最伟大的女性，也知道她曾靠一己之力阻止了骡。）

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“但是，整个事件的来龙去脉，真正知晓的人却少之又少。”

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（哈！如果她得向全班朗读这篇作文，上面这句话就可以用神秘兮兮的语气来念。这样一来，一定就会有人问她实情究竟如何。然后嘛，嗯，如果他们硬要问的话，自己就不得不说实话了，对不对？她已经想好了将来面对父亲的严厉质问时，要怎么说一套委屈却振振有辞的辩解。）

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“经过了五年的极权统治，又出现了另外一个变化，而这个变化的原因至今不明。总之，骡从此放弃了一切的扩张政策，他在位的最后五年，实行的是道道地地的开明专制。”

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“有人说，骡的改变是由于第二基地的介入。然而从来没有人找到另外那个基地的正确位置，也没有任何人知道它的真正作用，所以上述的理论仍旧未被证实。”

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“如今，距离骡的死亡又过了整整一个世代。在骡倏来忽去之后，未来又将如何发展呢？骡的出现干扰了谢顿计划，似乎已经将计划弄得四分五裂，可是在他死后下久，基地又再度兴起，如同从垂死恒星的灰烬中重生的新星。”

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（上面这些如假包换是她的创作。）

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“于是，端点星这颗行星，再一次成为一个商业联邦的中心。它几乎恢复了被征服之前的富庶与强盛，甚至变得更加和平、更为民主。”

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“这个发展也在计划之中吗？谢顿伟大的梦想依旧健在吗？六百年之后，真的会有一个第二银河帝国兴起吗？我个人相信答案是肯定的，因为，”

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（这是很重要的一部分，爱尔金小姐总是喜欢用红铅笔，在学生的作文上写一些又大又丑的评语：“这只是叙述而已，你个人的心得呢？用心想一想！表达出你自己的想法！洞察你自己的内心深处！”洞察你自己的内心深处，她可真是非常了解人类的心灵，她那张丑脸这辈子从来没有笑过……）

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“在我们过去的历史上，从来没有出现过如今这种大好的情势。旧帝国已经完全灭亡了，而经过骡的统治之后，当年那些军阀割据的局面也一去不复返，银河边陲地带大都过着文明和平的日子。”

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“此外，基地内部也比往昔健全许多。被骡征服之前的世袭市长专制时代结束了，基地再度恢复早期的民主选举。银河中再也没有持异议的独立行商世界；也不再有大量财富集中于少数人之手这种分配不均的不公平现象。所以说，我们没有理由抱持失败的恐惧，除非第二基地真的对我们构成威胁。不过那些抱着这种想法的人，除了茫然的畏惧与迷信之外，根本不能提出任何的证据。我认为，我们对自己、对国家、对伟大的谢顿计划的信心，应该能够将心中的任何疑虑驱散，”

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（嗯——这实在是可怕的陈腔滥调，不过作文的结尾总要写点这种东西。）

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“因此我说，”

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这篇《谢顿计划的展望》写到这里时，却又不得不暂停了，因为艾嘉蒂娅忽然听见窗玻璃发出轻微的声响。她单手撑着椅子扶手，引颈向窗户的方向看去，竟发现自己跟窗外的一张笑脸遥遥相对。那是一张男子的脸孔，被竖在嘴唇上的一根指头分成两半，样子看起来十分滑稽。

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艾嘉蒂娅只愣了一下，就立刻装出一副茫然的表情。她从扶手椅上爬下来，走近大窗台前的沙发，然后跪在沙发上，若有所思地瞪着窗外。

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那张脸孔上的笑容很快消失了。他一只手紧抓着窗台，由于用力过猛，连指节都已泛白；腾出来的另一只手，则迅速地做了一个手势。艾嘉蒂娅立即会意，按动了一下开关，窗玻璃下方三分之二立刻滑进墙壁。春天温暖的空气随即进入室内，与其中经过空调的空气混合起来。

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“你不可以进来，”她故意装模作样，用俏皮的语调说，“窗子都加装了防盗幕，只能让住在这里的人通过。如果你钻进来，各种各样的警铃通通会立刻铃声大作。”

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她顿了一顿，又补充道，“你两脚踩在窗户下面的台子上，这种身手实在一点也不高明。如果你不小心的话，就会摔断你那根不值钱的脖子，还会压坏好些珍贵的花朵。”

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站在窗边的那个人，此时心中担心的也正是这件事，但却认为那两个形容词应该交换一下。他吃力地说：“既然这样，那你能不能把防盗幕关掉，好让我爬进去？”

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“你苦苦哀求也没有用，”艾嘉蒂娅说，“我想你也许闯错了地方。因为我可不是那种随便的女孩，这么晚还会让陌生男子进入她们……进入她的卧室。”她在说这几句话的时候，眼睑微微下垂，露出了一个性感的神情——或者应该说，模仿得实在过分惟妙惟肖。

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一时间，那名年轻男子脸上的顽皮神色消失无踪。他喃喃问道：“这里是达瑞尔博士的住宅，对不对？”

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“我为什么要告诉你？”

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“喔，老天啊——再见——”

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“如果你要跳下去的话，年轻人，我就马上按下警铃。”（“年轻人”是她故意选用的讽刺字眼，用来表现自己的世故与练达。因为在艾嘉蒂娅精明的眼睛看来，这家伙显然至少有三十岁——对她而言，实在是很老了。）

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僵持了一会儿，那人又用严肃的声音说：“好吧，我问你，小姐，如果你不要我待在这里，又不准我走的话，你到底想要我怎么做？”

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“我想你可以进来。达瑞尔博士的确住在这里，我现在就把防盗幕关掉……”

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“年轻人”先探头向房间内仔细看了看，然后才将手伸进窗内，一挺身钻了进来。进屋之后，他故意使劲拍着膝盖上的灰尘，仿佛在做无言的抗议，然后又抬起通红的脸孔对着艾嘉蒂娅。

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“如果有人发现我在这里，你确定你的人格与名誉不会受损吗？”

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“如果这样的话，你的人格与名誉受到的损害，绝对会比我严重得多。因为只要一听到外面有脚步声，我就会立刻大吼大叫，指控你强行闯进我的房间。”

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“是吗？”他故意以谦恭的态度问道，“可是防盗幕是你自己关掉的，这一点你又要如何解释？”

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“哼！那还不简单，其实根本就没有什么防盗幕。”

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那人的眼睛睁得老大，看来真的发火了：“那是唬人的？小丫头，你今年多大了？”

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“嗯，我认为这是一个非常没有礼貌的问题，年轻人，而且我也不习惯被人称作‘小丫头’。”

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“这点我不怀疑，你也许是骡的祖母化装成的。在你还没有呼朋引伴，准备对我动用私刑之前，我是不是应该赶紧溜走呢？”

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“你最好别走——因为家父正在等你。”

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那人的表情再度变得谨慎万分。他扬起一道眉毛，轻声问道：“哦？有人跟你的父亲在一起吗？”

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“没有。”

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“最近有人来拜访过他吗？”

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“只有卖东西的小贩——还有你。”

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“有没有发生任何不寻常的事？”

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“只有你。”

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“饶了我吧，好不好？不，别饶我，告诉我，你怎么会知道令尊正在等我？”

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“哦，那还不简单！上星期他收到了一个私人信囊，只有他本人才能开启的那种，里面有一张会自行氧化的信笺。你知道吗，他还特别把那个信囊丢进垃圾分解器中。昨天，他主动放了波莉一个月的假——波莉是我们的女佣——让她去探望住在端点市的姐姐。到了今天下午，他又在客房里整理床铺。因此我就晓得他正在等什么人，却故意不让我知道，平常他什么事情都会告诉我的。”

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“真的！我很怀疑他需要告诉你什么事，我认为他根本还没说，你就什么都知道了。”

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“通常都是这样的。”说完她就笑了，并且开始感到轻松自在。这个来访的客人年纪虽然不小了，不过外表看来十分出色，有着一头棕色的卷发，还有一对深蓝色的眼睛。也许，她想，等自己年纪够大的时候，还能够再遇到类似的人物。

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“可是，”那人又提出了一个问题，“你又怎么知道我就是他要等的人？”

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“唉，还会有谁呢？他神秘兮兮地在等一个人——我想你应该懂我的意思。然后你就鬼头鬼脑地来了，而且还想从窗户爬进来。如果你有一点常识的话，就应该知道该走到前门去叫门。”她突然想到一句自己很欣赏的话，立刻脱口而出：“男人全都这么笨！”

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“你倒蛮有自信的嘛，对不对，小丫头？不，我是说‘小姐’。你知道吗，你说的可能完全不对。如果我现在告诉你，我被你搞得一头雾水，而且据我所知，令尊等的不是我而是别人，那你又该怎么办？”

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“哦，我才不信呢。我可没有一开始就让你进来，直到看见你把手提箱丢下去，我才改变了主意。”

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“我的什么？”

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“你的手提箱，年轻人。我可不是瞎子，你并不是不小心，而是故意把它丢下去的。因为你先向下面看了一眼，估计它会落在哪里，等你确定它会掉进树篱里面，不会被别人看见，这才把手提箱丢下去，然后你就再也没有向下望一眼。既然你故意不走前门，而准备从窗户爬进来，就表示你不太敢确定是否找对了地方，所以想先观察一下。而当你被我发现之后，你首先想到的是手提箱，而不是你自己的安危，这就代表说，你把那里面的东西看得比自己更重要。现在既然你人在屋内，而手提箱还在屋外——这一点我们都心照不宣，你也许根本就无计可施。”

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她一口气说到这里，实在需要停下来好好喘口气。那人乘机回嘴道：“不过，我也可以把你勒得半死，然后逃出去，再捡起手提箱远走高飞。”

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“不过，年轻人，我的床底下刚好有一根棒球棒，我可以在两秒钟之内抓到手里，而且我是一个很强壮的女生。”

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僵持了好一阵子，“年轻人”终于以做作的礼貌口吻说：“既然我们这么谈得来，我想应该自我介绍一下。我的名字叫裴礼斯·安索，你叫什么名字？”

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“我名叫艾嘉……艾卡蒂·达瑞尔，很高兴认识你。”

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“好的，艾卡蒂，现在你能不能做个好心的小女孩，去把你父亲叫来？”

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艾嘉蒂娅愤愤地抬起头说：“我可不是小女孩，我认为你这样说相当没有礼貌——尤其是拜托别人帮忙的时候，更不应该用这种称呼。”

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裴礼斯·安索叹了一口气，改口道：“说得好——请问你能不能做一个好心、善良、可爱的老妇人，为我前去将令尊请过来？”

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“我也不是那个意思，不过我会去叫他的。可是别以为我会把视线从你身上移开，年轻人。”说完。她就开始用力踏地板。

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走廊处随即传来一阵急促的脚步声，然后卧室的门就被猛力打开。

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“艾嘉蒂娅——”达瑞尔博士吼到一半便煞住了，他轻轻吐了一口气，然后问道，“先生，你是谁？”

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裴礼斯赶紧站起来，样子显然松了一口气：“杜伦·达瑞尔博士？我是裴礼斯·安索。我想你已经收到那封信，至少令嫒告诉我你的确收到了。”

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“我女儿说的？”他皱起眉头，用责备的眼光瞪了艾嘉蒂娅一眼，却看到她正张大眼睛，露出一副无懈可击的无辜状，于是马上将严厉的目光又收回来。

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过了好一会儿，达瑞尔博士终于再度开口：“我正在等你呢，请跟我下楼来好吗？”说到这里他突然打住，因为他看到旁边有个东西正在闪动，此时艾嘉蒂娅也注意到了。

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她赶紧扑向那台听写机，可是却已经来不及了，因为她父亲就站在机器旁边。

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他以温柔的口吻说：“你一直都开着喔，艾嘉蒂娅。”

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“爸爸，”她难为情地尖叫道，“看人家的私人信件是很不礼貌的行为，看人家的私人谈话记录就更不用说了。”

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“啊，”她父亲说，“可是这个‘谈话记录’，却是你跟一个陌生男子在卧室里录的！身为你的父亲，艾嘉蒂娅，我必须要保护你。”

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“噢，天哪！根本不是那么回事。”

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裴礼斯突然笑道：“喔，就是那么回事。达瑞尔博士，这位小姐正准备指控我许多罪名，即使为了洗刷我的冤屈，我也必须坚持请你读一读。”

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“噢——”艾嘉蒂娅强忍住泪水。竟然连父亲也不相信自己，而那台可恶的听写机——如果不是那个笨蛋傻傻地摸到窗口来，她也不会忘记把机器关掉。现在，父亲一定准备发表长篇大论，告诫她什么是年轻女子不应当做的事。看来，好像根本没有什么是她们应当做的，也许只有上吊自杀是惟一的例外。

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“艾嘉蒂娅，”她父亲以温和的语气说，“我认为，一个年轻女子——”

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来了吧！她就知道，她早就知道。

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“——不应该对一位比自己年长许多的人，说话这么没大没小。”

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“可是，谁叫他要到我的窗户旁边探头探脑？一个年轻女子总有隐私权——现在你看，我得从头再念一遍这篇可恶的作文。”

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“他爬到你的窗边究竟对不对，并不是你应该管的事情。你根本就不该让他进来，应该立刻通知我——尤其是你，认为我正在等他。”

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她以撒娇的口气说：“你不见他也好——这个傻瓜。如果他一直这样子飞檐走壁，而不从大门进出的话，迟早会把所有的秘密都抖出来。”

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“艾嘉蒂娅，自己不懂的事情，就不要多嘴。”

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“谁说我不懂，是关于第二基地的事情，对不对？”

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她这句话一出口，立刻带来好一阵子的沉默，就连她自己也觉得腹部在微微抽搐。

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然后，达瑞尔博士轻声问道：“你是从哪里听来的？”

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“我可不是从哪里听来的。除了这事，还有什么值得这么神秘兮兮的吗？你不用担心，我不会跟任何人说的。”

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“安索先生，”达瑞尔博士说，“我必须为这一切向你道歉。”

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“喔，没有关系。”安索用不大诚恳的语气答道，“如果她将自己出卖给邪恶的力量，那也绝不是你的错。我们离开这里之前，我还想再问她一个问题，希望你别介意。艾嘉蒂娅小姐——”

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“你想要问什么？”

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“你为什么认为爬窗户而不走大门是一件傻事呢？”

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“因为这等于你在大肆宣扬想要隐瞒什么，傻瓜。如果我心中有一个秘密，绝不会把嘴巴贴上胶布，让大家都知道我藏着什么秘密。我会像平常一样谈天说地，只要不提那个秘密就行了。你没有读过塞佛·哈定的格言吗？你可知道，他是我们的首任市长。”

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“是的，我知道。”

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“好，他曾经说过：惟有大言不惭的谎言才能成功；他还说过：任何事情都不必是真的，但是都必须让人信以为真。哼，当你从窗户爬进来的时候，就已经违背了这两个原则。”

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“那么如果是你的话，你又要怎么做呢？”

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“如果我有一件最高机密，要来找我爸爸商量的话，我会先在公开场合与他结识，然后用各种冠冕堂皇的理由来找他。而当每一个人都认识你，认为你跟我爸爸在一起是理所当然的事情，你就可以随便跟他商量任何机密，而绝不会引起别人的怀疑。”

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安索以不可思议的眼光盯着这个女孩，然后再看看达瑞尔博士，这才道：“我们走吧，我得到花园去找我的手提箱。等一等！还有一个问题。艾嘉蒂娅，你的床底下根本没有什么球棒吧，对不对？”

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“没有！我没有。”

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“哈，我就知道。”

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达瑞尔博士站在门口说：“艾嘉蒂娅，当你重写那篇关于谢顿计划的作文时，不要无缘无故把奶奶渲染得太过神秘，其实根本没有必要提那件事。”然后他就和裴礼斯一起默默走下楼梯。

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走到一半，那位客人压低了声音问道：“希望你别介意，博士，请问令嫒有多大了？”

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“十四岁，前天刚过的生日。”

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“十四岁？我的老天——告诉我，她有没有说将来准备嫁人？”

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“没有，她没提过，至少没有对我提过。”

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“嗯，如果她哪天提出来，我看你还是把他枪毙算了——我是说，她想要嫁的那个人。”他凝视着这位前辈的眼睛，以严肃的口气说，“我是认真的，等到她二十岁的时候，跟她生活在一起绝对是天底下最可怕的事。当然我这么说，绝不是故意要冒犯你。”

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“你没有冒犯我，我想我知道你的意思。”

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这两个人仔细分析的对象，此时仍然待在楼上，面对着那台听写机，憋了一肚子的反感与厌烦。她用模糊而懒散的口气念道：“谢，顿——计，划——的，展，望——”而听写机则发挥了无比精确的功能，将那些声音转换成优雅秀丽的字体：

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谢顿计划的展望

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Arcadia Darell declaimed firmly into the mouthpiece of her transcriber :

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"The Future of Seldon’s Plan, by A. Darell" and then thought darkly that some day when she was a great writer, she would write all her masterpieces under the pseudonym of Arkady. Just Arkady. No last name at all.

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"A. Darell" would be just the sort of thing that she would have to put on all her themes for her class in Composition and Rhetoric ?so tasteless. All the other kids had to do it, too, except for Olynthus Dam, because the class laughed so when he did it the first time, And "Arcadia" was a little girls name, wished on her because her great-grandmother had been called that; her parents just had no imagination at all.

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Now that she was two days past fourteen, you’d think they’d recognize the simple fact of adulthood and call her Arkady. Her lips tightened as she thought of her father looking up from his book-viewer just long enough to say, "But if you’re going to pretend you’re nineteen, Arcadia, what will you do when you’re twenty-five and all the boys think you’re thirty?"

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From where she sprawled across the arms and into the hollow of her own special armchair, she could see the mirror on her dresser. Her foot was a little in the way because her house slipper kept twirling about her big toe, so she pulled it in and sat up with an unnatural straightness to her neck that she felt sure, somehow, lengthened it a full two inches into slim regality.

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For a moment, she considered her face thoughtfully ?too fat. She opened her jaws half an inch behind closed lips, and caught the resultant trace of unnatural gauntness at every angle. She licked her lips with a quick touch of tongue and let them pout a bit in moist softness. Then she let her eyelids droop

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in a weary, worldly way?Oh, golly if only her cheeks weren’t that silly pink.

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She tried putting her fingers to the outer comers of her eye and tilting the lids a bit to get that mysterious exotic languor of the women of the inner star systems, but her hands were in the way and she couldn’t see her face very well.

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Then she lifted her chin, caught herself at a half-profile, and with her eyes a little strained from looking out the comer and her neck muscles faintly aching, she said, in a voice one octave below its natural pitch, "Really, father, if you think it makes a particle of difference to me what some silly old boys think you just?

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And then she remembered that she still had the transmitter open in her hand and said, drearily , "Oh, golly," and shut it off.

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The faintly violet paper with the peach margin line on the left had upon it the following:

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"THE FUTURE OF SELDON’S PLAN

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"Really, father, if you think it makes a particle of difference to me what some silly old boys think you just

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"Oh, golly."

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She pulled the sheet out of the machine with annoyance and another clicked neatly into place.

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But her face smoothed out of its vexation, nevertheless, and her wide, little mouth stretched into a self-satisfied smile. She sniffed at the paper delicately. just right. Just that proper touch of elegance and charm. And the penmanship was just the last word.

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The machine had been delivered two days ago on her first adult birthday. She had said, "But father, everybody ?just everybody in the class who has the slightest pretensions to being anybody has one. Nobody but some old drips would use hand machines?

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The salesman had said, "There is no other model as compact on the one hand aaaaas adaptable on the other. It will spell and punctuate correctly according to the sense of the sentence. Naturally, it is a great aid to education since it encourages the user to employ careful enunciation and breathing in order to make sure of the correct spelling, to say nothing of demanding a proper and elegant delivery for correct punctuation ."

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Even then her father had tried to get one geared for type-print as if she were some dried-up, old-maid teacher.

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But when it was delivered, it was the model she wanted ?obtained perhaps with a little more wail and sniffle than quite went with the adulthood of fourteen ?and copy was turned out in a charming and entirely feminine handwriting, with the most beautifully graceful capitals anyone ever saw.

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Even the phrase, "Oh, golly." somehow breathed glamour when the Transcriber was done with it.

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But just the same she had to get it right, so she sat up straight in her chair, placed her first draft before her in businesslike fashion, and began again, crisply and clearly; her abdomen flat, her chest lifted, and her breathing carefully controlled. She intoned, with dramatic fervor :

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The Future of Seldon’s Plan.

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"The Foundation’s past history is, I am sure, well-known to all of us who have had the good fortune to be educated in our planet’s efficient and well-staffed school system.

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(There! That would start things off right with Miss Erlking, that mean old hag.)

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That past history is largely the past history of the great Plan of Hari Seldon. The two are one. But the question in the mind of most people today is whether this Plan will continue in all its great wisdom, or whether it will be foully destroyed, or, perhaps, has been so destroyed already.

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"To understand this, it may be best to pass quickly over some of the highlights of the Plan as it has been revealed to humanity thus far.

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(This part was easy because she had taken Modern History the semester before.)

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"In the days, nearly four centuries ago, when the First Galactic Empire was decaying into the paralysis that preceded final death, one man ?the great Hari Seldon ?foresaw the approaching end. Through the science of psychohistory, the intrissacies of whose mathematics has long since been forgotten,

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(She paused in a trifle of doubt. She was sure that "intricacies" was pronounced with soft c’s but the spelling didn’t look right. Oh, well, the machine couldn’t very well be wrong?

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he and the men who worked with him are able to foretell the course of the great social and economic currents sweeping the Galaxy at the time. It was possible for them to realize that, left to itself, the Empire would break up, and that thereafter there would be at least thirty thousand years of anarchic chaos prior to the establishment of a new Empire.

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"It was too late to prevent the great Fall, but it was still possible, at least, to cut short the intermediate period of chaos. The Plan was, therefore, evolved whereby only a single millennium would separate the Second Empire from the First. We are completing the fourth century of that millennium, and many generations of men have lived and died while the Plan has continued its inexorable workings.

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"Hari Seldon established two Foundations at the opposite ends of the Galaxy, in a manner and under such circumstances as would yield the best mathematical solution for his psychohistorical problem. In one of these, our Foundation, established here on Terminus, there was concentrated the physical science of the Empire, and through the possession of that science, the Foundation was able to withstand the attacks of the barbarous kingdoms which had broken away and become independent, out at the hinge of the Empire.

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"The Foundation, indeed, was able to conquer in its turn these short-lived kingdoms by means of the leadership of a series of wise and heroic men like Salvor Hardin and Hober Mallow who were able to interpret the Plan intelligently and to guide our land through its

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(She had written "intricacies" here also, but decided not to risk it a second time.)

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complications. All our planets still revere their memories although centuries have passed.

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"Eventually, the Foundation established a commercial system which controlled a large portion of the Siwennian and Anacreonian sectors of the Galaxy, and even defeated the remnants of the old Empire under its last great general, Bel Riose. It seemed that nothing could now stop the workings of Seldon’s plan. Every crisis that Seldon had planned had come at its appropriate time and had been solved, and with each solution the Foundation had taken another giant stride toward Second Empire and peace.

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"And then,

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(Her breath came short at this point, and she hissed the word, between her teeth, but the Transmitter simply wrote them calmly and gracefully .)

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with the last remnants of the dead First Empire gone and with only ineffectual warlords ruling over the splinters and remnants of the decayed colossus,

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(She got that phrase out of a thriller on the video last week, but old Miss Erlking never listened to anything but symphonies and lectures, so she’d never know.)

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there came the Mule.

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"This strange man was not allowed for in the Plan. He was a mutant, whose birth could not have been predicted. He had strange and mysterious power of controlling and manipulating human emotions and in this manner could bend all men to his will. With breath-taking swiftness, he became a conqueror and Empire-builder, until, finally, he even defeated the Foundation itself.

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"Yet he never obtained universal dominion , since in his first overpowering lunge he was stopped by the wisdom and daring of a great woman

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(Now there was that old problem again. Father would insist that she never bring up the fact that she was the grandchild of Bayta Darell. Everyone knew it and Bayta was just about the greatest woman there ever was and she had stopped the Mule singlehanded.)

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in a manner the true story of which is known in its entirety to very few.

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(There! If she had to read it to the class, that last could he said in a dark voice, and someone would be sure to ask what the true story was, and then ?well, and then she couldn’t help tell the truth if they asked her, could she? In her mind, she was already wordlessly whizzing through a hurt and eloquent explanation to a stern and questioning paternal parent.)

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"After five years of restricted rule, another change took place, the reasons for which are not known, and the Mule abandoned all plans for further conquest. His last five years were those of an enlightened despot.

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"It is said by some that the change in the Mule was brought about by the intervention of the Second Foundation. However, no man has ever discovered the exact location of this other Foundation, nor knows its exact function, so that theory remains unproven.

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"A whole generation has passed since the death of the Mule. What of the future, then, now that he has come and gone? He interrupted Seldon’s Plan and seemed to have burst it to fragments, yet as soon as he died, the Foundation rose again, like a nova from the dead ashes of a dying star.

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(She had made that up herself.)

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Once again, the planet Terminus houses the center of a commercial federation almost as great and as rich as before the conquest, and even more peaceful and democratic.

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"Is this planned? Is Seldon’s great dream still alive, and will a Second Galactic Empire yet be formed six hundred years from now? I, myself, believe so, because

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(This was the important part. Miss Erlking always had those large, ugly red-pencil scrawls that went: ’But this is only descriptive. What are your personal reactions? Think! Express yourself! Penetrate your own soul!’ Penetrate your own soul. A lot she knew about souls, with her lemon face that never smiled in its life?

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never at any time has the political situation been so favorable. The old Empire is completely dead and the period of the Mule’s rule put an end to the era of warlords that preceded him. Most of the surrounding portions of the Galaxy are civilized and peaceful.

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"Moreover the internal health of the Foundation is better than ever before. The despotic times of the pre-Conquest hereditary mayors have given way to the democratic elections of early times. There are no longer dissident worlds of independent Traders; no longer the injustices and dislocations that accompanied accumulations of great wealth in the hands of a few.

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"There is no reason, therefore, to fear failure, unless it is true that the Second Foundation itself presents a danger. Those who think so have no evidence to back their claim, but merely vague fears and superstitions . I think that our confidence in ourselves, in our nation, and in Hari Seldon’s great Plan should drive from our hearts and minds all uncertainties and

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(Hm-mmm. This was awfully corny, but something like this was expected at the end.)

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so I say?

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That is as far as "The Future of Seldon’s Plan" got, at that moment, because there was the gentlest little tap on the window, and when Arcadia shot up to a balance on one arm of the chair, she found herself confronted by a smiling face beyond the glass, its even symmetry of feature interestingly accentuated by the short, vertical fine of a finger before its lips.

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With the slight pause necessary to assume an attitude of bepuzzlement, Arcadia dismounted from the armchair, walked to the couch that fronted the wide window that held the apparition and, kneeling upon it, stared out thoughtfully.

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The smile upon the man’s face faded quickly. While the fingers of one hand tightened whitely upon the sill, the other made a quick gesture. Arcadia obeyed calmly, and closed the latch that moved the lower third of the window smoothly into its socket in the wall, allowing the warm spring air to interfere with the conditioning within.

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"You can’t get in," she said, with comfortable smugness. "The windows are all screened, and keyed only to people who belong here. If you come in, all sorts of alarms will break loose." A pause, then she added, "You look sort of silly balancing on that ledge underneath

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the window. If you’re not careful, you’ll fall and break your neck and a lot of valuable flowers."

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"In that case," said the man at the window, who had been thinking that very thing ?with a slightly different arrangement of adjectives?"will you shut off the screen and let me in?"

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"No use in doing that’" said Arcadia. "You’re probably thinking of a different house, because I’m not the kind of girl who lets strange men into their ... her bedroom this time of night." Her eyes, as she said it, took on a heavy-lidded sultriness ?or an unreasonable facsimile thereof.

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All traces of humor whatever had disappeared from the young stranger’s face. He muttered, "This is Dr. Darell’s house, isn’t it?"

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"Why should I tell you?"

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"Oh, Galaxy?Good-by?

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"If you jump off, young man, I will personally give the alarm." (This was intended as a refined and sophisticated thrust of irony , since to Arcadia’s enlightened eyes, the intruder was an obviously mature thirty, at least ?quite elderly, in fact.)

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Quite a pause. Then, tightly, he said, "Well, now, look here, girlie, if you don’t want me to stay, and don’t want me to go, what do you want me to do?"

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"You can come in, I suppose. Dr. Darell does live here. I抣l shut off the screen now."

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Warily , after a searching look, the young man poked his hand through the window, then hunched himself up and through it. He brushed at his knees with an angry, slapping gesture, and lifted a reddened face at her.

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"You’re quite sure that your character and reputation won’t suffer when they find me here, are you?"

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"Not as much as yours would, because just as soon as I hear footsteps outside, I’ll just shout and yell and say you forced your way in here."

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"Yes?" he replied with heavy courtesy, "And how do you intend to explain the shut-off protective screen?"

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"Poof! That would be easy. There wasn’t any there in the first place."

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The man’s eyes were wide with chagrin . "That was a bluff ? How old are you, kid?"

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"I consider that a very impertinent question, young man. And I am not accustomed to being addressed as ’kid.’"

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"I don’t wonder. You’re probably the Mule’s grandmother in disguise. Do you mind if I leave now before you arrange a lynching party with myself as star performer?"

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"You had better not leave ?because my father’s expecting you."

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The man’s look became a wary one, again. An eyebrow shot up as he said, lightly, "Oh? Anyone with your father?’

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"Anyone called on him lately?’

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"Only tradespeople ?and you."

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"Anything unusual happen at all?"

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"Only you."

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"Forget me, will you? No, don’t forget me. Tell me, how did you know your father was expecting me?"

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"Oh, that was easy. Last week, he received a Personal Capsule, keyed to him personally, with a self-oxidizing message, you know. He threw the capsule shell into the Trash Disinto, and yesterday, he gave Poli ?that’s our maid, you see ?a month’s vacation so she could visit her sister in Terminus City, and this afternoon, he made up the bed in the spare room. So I knew he expected somebody that I wasn’t supposed to know anything about. Usually, he tells me everything."

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"Really! I’m surprised he has to. I should think you’d know everything before he tells you."

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’I usually do." Then she laughed. She was beginning to feel very much at ease. The visitor was elderly, but very distinguished-looking with curly brown hair and very blue eyes. Maybe she could meet somebody like that again, sometimes, when she was old herself.

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"And just how," he asked, "did you know it was I he expected."

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"Well, who else could it be? He was expecting somebody in so secrety a way, if you know what I mean ?and then you come gumping around trying to sneak through windows, instead of walking through the front door, the way you would if you had any sense." She remembered a favorite line, and used it promptly . "Men are so stupid!"

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"Pretty stuck on yourself, aren’t you, kid? I mean, Miss. You could be wrong, you know. What if I told you that all this is a mystery to me and that as far as I know, your father is expecting someone else, not me."

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"Oh, I don’t think so. I didn’t ask you to come in, until after I saw you drop your briefcase ."

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"My what?"

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"Your briefcase, young man. I’m not blind. You didn’t drop it by accident, because you looked down first, so as to make sure it would land right. Then you must have realized it would land just under the hedges and wouldn’t be seen, so you dropped it and didn’t look down afterwards. Now since you came to the window instead of the front door, it must mean that you were a little afraid to trust yourself in the house before investigating the place. And after you had a little trouble with me, you took care of your briefcase before taking care of yourself, which means that you consider whatever your briefcase has in it to be more valuable than your own safety, and that means that as long as you’re in here and the briefcase is out there and we know that it’s out there, you’re probably pretty helpless."

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She paused for a much-needed breath, and the man said, grittily, "Except that I think I’ll choke you just about medium dead and get out of here, with the briefcase."

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"Except, young man, that I happen to have a baseball bat under my bed, which I can reach in two seconds from where I’m sitting, and I’m very strong for a girl."

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Impasse . Finally, with a strained courtesy, the "young man" said, "Shall I introduce myself, since we’re being so chummy. I’m Pelleas Anthor. And your name?"

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"I’m Arca?Arkady Darell. Pleased to meet you."

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"And now Arkady, would you be a good little girl and call your father?"

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Arcadia bridled

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. "I’m not a little girl. I think you’re very rude ?especially when you’re asking a favor."

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Pelleas Anthor sighed. "Very well. Would you be a good, kind, dear, little old lady, just chock full of lavender, and call your father?"

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"That’s not what I meant either, but I抣l call him. Only not so I’ll take my eyes off you, young man." And she stamped on the floor.

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There came the sound of hurrying footsteps in the hall, and the door was flung open.

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"Arcadia? There was a tiny explosion of exhaled air, and Dr. Darell said, "Who are you, sir?"

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Pelleas sprang to his feet in what was quite obviously relief. "Dr. Toran Darell? I am Pelleas Anthor. You’ve received word about me, I think. At least, your daughter says you have."

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"My daughter says I have?" He bent a frowning glance at her which caromed harmlessly off the wide-eyed and impenetrable web of innocence with which she met the accusation .

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Dr. Darell said, finally: "I have been expecting you. Would you mind coming down with me, please?" And he stopped as his eye caught a flicker of motion, which Arcadia caught simultaneously .

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She scrambled toward her Transcriber, but it was quite useless, since her father was standing right next to it. He said, sweetly, "You’ve left it going all this time, Arcadia."

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"Father," she squeaked , in real anguish , "it is very ungentlemanly to read another person’s private correspondence, especially when it’s talking correspondence."

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"Ah," said her father, "but ’talking correspondence’ with a strange man in your bedroom! As a father, Arcadia, I must protect you against evil."

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"Oh, golly ?it was nothing like that."

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Pelleas laughed suddenly, "Oh, but it was, Dr. Darell. The young lady was going to accuse me of all sorts of things, and I must insist that you read it, if only to clear my name."

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"Oh? Arcadia held back her tears with an effort. Her own father didn’t even trust her. And that darned Transcriber?If that silly fool hadn’t come gooping at the window, and making her forget to turn it off. And now her father would be making long, gentle speeches about what young ladies aren’t supposed to do. There just wasn’t anything they were supposed to do, it looked like, except choke and die, maybe.

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"Arcadia," said her father, gently, "it strikes me that a young lady?

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She knew it. She knew it.

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"杝hould not be quite so impertinent to men older than she is.

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"Well, what did he want to come peeping around my window for? A young lady has a right to privacy?Now I’ll have to do my whole darned composition over."

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"It’s not up to you to question his propriety in coming to your window. You should simply not have let him in. You should have called me instantly ?especially if you thought I was expecting him."

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She said, peevishly , "It’s just as well if you didn’t see him ?stupid thing. Hell give the whole thing away if he keeps on going to windows, instead of doors."

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"Arcadia, nobody wants your opinion on matters you know nothing of."

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"I do, too. It’s the Second Foundation, that’s what it is."

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There was a silence. Even Arcadia felt a little nervous stirring in her abdomen.

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Dr. Darell said, softly, "Where have you heard this?"

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"Nowheres, but what else is there to be so secret about? And you don’t have to worry that I抣l tell anyone."

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"Mr. Anthor," said Dr. Darell, "I must apologize for all this."

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"Oh, that’s all right," came Anthor’s rather hollow response. "It’s not your fault if she’s sold herself to the forces of darkness. But do you mind if I ask her a question before we go. Miss Arcadia?

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"What do you want?"

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"Why do you think it is stupid to go to windows instead of to doors?"

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"Because you advertise what you’re trying to hide, silly. If I have a secret, I don’t put tape over my mouth and let everyone know I have a secret. I talk just as much as usual, only about something else. Didn’t you ever read any of the sayings of Salvor Hardin? He was our first Mayor, you know."

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"Yes, I know."

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"Well, he used to say that only a he that wasn’t ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true. Well, when you come in through a window, it’s a lie that’s ashamed of itself and it doesn’t sound true."

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"Then what would you have done?"

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"If I had wanted to see my father on top secret business, I would have made his acquaintance openly and seen him about all sorts of strictly legitimate

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things. And then when everyone knew all about you and connected you with my father as a matter of course, you could be as top secret as you want and nobody would ever think of questioning it."

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Anthor looked at the girl strangely, then at Dr. Darell. He said, "Let’s go. I have a briefcase I want to pick up in the garden. Wait! Just one last question. Arcadia, you don’t really have a baseball bat under your bed, do you?"

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"No! I don’t."

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"Hah. I didn’t think so."

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Dr. Darell stopped at the door. "Arcadia," he said, "when you rewrite your composition on the Seldon Plan, don’t be unnecessarily mysterious about your grandmother. There is no necessity to mention that part at all."

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He and Pelleas descended the stairs in silence. Then the visitor asked in a strained voice, "Do you mind, sir? How old is she?"

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"Fourteen, day before yesterday."

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"Fourteen? Great Galaxy?Tell me, has she ever said she expects to marry some day?"

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"No, she hasn’t. Not to me."

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Well, if she ever does, shoot him. The one she’s going to marry, I mean." He stared earnestly into the older man’s eyes. "I’m serious. Life could hold no greater horror than living with what shell be like when she’s twenty. I don’t mean to offend you, of course."

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"You don’t offend me. I think I know what you mean."

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Upstairs, the object of their tender analyses faced the Transcriber with revolted weariness and said, dully: "Thefutureofseldonsplan." The Transcriber with infinite aplomb , translated that into elegantly, complicated script capitals as:

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"The Future of Seldon’s Plan."

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