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'Thank you, Mr Teppic,' he said, 'you may proceed.'
Teppic felt the sweat of his body grow cold. He stared at the plank, and then at the examiner, and then at his knife. 'Y's, sir,' he said. This didn't seem like enough, in the circumstances. He added, 'Thank you, sir.'
conditions for their children which would have been rejected out of hand by destitute sandflies.
He stretched out on the thin mattress and analysed the day's events. He'd been enrolled as an assassin, all right, a student assassin, for more than seven hours and they hadn't even let him lay a hand on a knife yet. Of course, tomorrow was another day . . .He'd always remember the first night in the dormitory. It was long enough to accommodate all eighteen boys in Viper House, and draughty enough to accommodate the great outdoors. Its designer may have had comfort in mind, but only so that he could avoid it wherever possible: he had contrived a room that could actually be colder than the weather outside. 'I thought we got rooms to ourselves,' said Teppic. Chidder, who had laid claim to the least exposed bed in the whole refrigerator, nodded at him. 'Later on,' he said. He lay back, and winced. 'Do they sharpen these springs, do you reckon?' Teppic said nothing. The bed was in fact rather more comfortable than the one he'd slept in at home. His parents, being high born, naturally tolerated

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all the way down.
'No,' she said.
He considered the options. 'All right,' he said.
Granny turned back and nodded to the actors, who had paused to watch her.
'I don't know what you're staring ?' she said. 'Why're all them kings and people up there?'
'It's a banquet, see,' said Nanny Ogg authoritatively. 'Because of the dead king, him in the boots, as was, only now if you look, you'll see he's pretending to be a soldier, and everyone's making speeches about how good he was and wondering who killed him.'
'Are they?' said Granny, grimly. She cast her eyes along the cast, looking for the murderer.
She was making up her mind. 'I still don't think you quite understand.'
'Well, I'm going to get to the bottom of it,' snapped Granny. She got back on to the stage and pulled aside the sacking curtains.
'You!' she shouted. 'You're dead 'You done the murder.' She looked sideways at Magrat, and admitted, grudgingly, 'Leastways, it looked like it.'
'So glad. It is always a pleasure

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you, laddie. I don't mind telling you. You've been like a son to me. How old are you, exactly? I never did know.'
'A hundred and two.'
Vitoller nodded gloomily. He was sixty, and his arthritis was playing him up.
'You've been like a father to me, then,' he said.
'It evens 'Aye. You don't want him to go, do you?'
'I was all for it at first. You know. Then I thought, there's destiny afoot. Just when things are going well, there's always bloody destiny. I mean, that's where he came from.
Somewhere up in the mountains. Now fate is calling him back. I shan't see out in the end,' said Hwel diffidently. 'Half the height, twice the age. You could say that on the overall average we live about the same length of time as humans.'The playmaster sighed. 'Well, I don't know what I will do without you and Tomjon around, and that's a fact.''It's only for the summer, and a lot of the lads are staying. In fact it's mainly the apprentices that are going. You said yourself it'd be good experience.'Vitoller looked wretched and, in the chilly air of the half-finished theatre, a good deal smaller than usual, like a balloon two weeks after the party. He prodded some wood shavings distractedly with his stick.'We grow old, Master Hwel. At least,' he corrected himself, 'I grow old and you grow older. We have heard the gongs at midnight.'

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'Man just went past with a cat on his head,' one of them remarked, after a minute or two's reflection.
'See who it was?'
'The Fool, I think.'
There was a thoughtful pause. The second guard shifted his grip on his halberd.
'It's a rotten job,' he said. 'But I suppose someone's got to do it.'

'We ain't going to curse anyone,' said Granny firmly. 'It hardly ever works if they don't know you've done it.'
'What you do is, you send him a doll of himself with pins in.'
'No, Gytha.'
'All you a ghost.'
'Oh, he was all right. It was the others,' said Nanny.
'Others?'
' "Pray carry a stone out of the palace so's I can haunt it, good mother," he says,' said Nanny Ogg. ' "It's bloody boring in here, Mistress Ogg, excuse my Klatchian," he says, so of course I did. I reckon they was all listening. have to do is get hold of some of his toenails,' Nanny persisted, enthusiastically.'No.''Or some of his hair or anything. I've got some pins.''No.''Cursing people is morally unsound and extremely bad for your karma,' said Magrat.'Well, I'm going to curse him anyway,' said Nanny. 'Under my breath, like. I could of caught my death in that dungeon for all he cared.''We ain't going to curse him,' said Granny. 'We're going to replace him. What did you do with the old king?''I left the rock on the kitchen table,' said Nanny. 'I couldn't stand it any more.''I don't see why,' said Magrat. 'He seemed very pleasant. For

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The taxman blushed.
'Well,' he said. 'It . . . wasn't nice.'
Which demonstrates that the tax gatherer was much better at figures than words. What he would have said, if embarrassment, fear, poor memory and a complete lack of any kind of imagination hadn't conspired against it, was:The taxman gave him a look of gratitude, and bobbed a bow.
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'Yes, yes,' said Lord Felmet, absently. 'You may go.''When I was a little boy, and staying with my aunt, and she had told me not to touch the cream, ekcetra, and she had put it on a high shelf in the pantry, and I got a stool and went after it when she was out anyway, and she'd come back and I didn't know, and I couldn't reach the bowl properly and it smashed on the floor, and she opened the door and glared at me: it was that look. But the worst thing was, they knew it.''Not nice,' said the duke.'No, sir.'The duke drummed the fingers of his left hand on the arm of his throne. The tax gatherer coughed again.'You're – you're not going to force me to go back, are you?' he said.'Um?' said the duke. He waved a hand irritably. 'No, no,' he said. 'Not at all. Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.'

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monkey! In my university!'
'Orang-outang, sir. He used to be a wizard but got caught in some magic, sir, now he won't let us turn him back, and he's the only one who knows where all the books are,' said Rincewind urgently. 'I look after his bananas,' he added, feeling LIKE THIS . . . Death. Seen him lately?'
Rincewind swallowed. 'Not lately, sir.'
'Well, I want him. This nonsense has got to stop. I'm going to stop it now, see? I want the eight most senior wizards assembled here, right, in half an hour with all the necessary equipment to perform the Rite of AshkEnte, is that understood? Not that the sight of you lot gives me any confidence. Bunch of pantywaisters the lot of you, and stop trying to hold my hand!'
'Oook.'some additional explanation was called for.Albert glared at him. 'Shut up.''Shutting up right away, sir.''And tell me where Death is.''Death, sir?' said Rincewind, backing against the wall.Tall, skeletal, blue eyes, stalks, TALKS

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said, how old do you think I am?'
'Fifteen?' he hazarded.
'I'm sixteen,' she wailed. 'And do you know how long I've been sixteen for?'
'I'm sorry, I don't under —'
'No, you wouldn't. No-one would.' She blew her nose again, and despite her shaking hands nevertheless carefully tucked the rather damp hanky back up her sleeve.
'You're allowed out,' she said. 'You haven't been here long enough to notice. Time stands still here, haven't you noticed? Oh, something passes, but it's not real time. He can't create real time.'
'Oh.'who jumped off a cliff because her father insisted she should marry this old man, and another one drowned herself rather than submit to—'
Mort listened in astonishment. To judge by Ysabell's careful choice of reading maWhen she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.'I've been sixteen for thirty-five years.''Oh?''It was she said. 'There's some really lovely stories. There was this girl who drank poison when her young man had died, and there was one tter, it was a matter of note for any Disc female to survive adolescence long enough