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| 8 | 67 | I saw how this man handled View more quotes about steel">steel, and I saw that the blade itself was much marked. |
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| 8 | 64 | "Permit me to seize up my weapon," I said. |
| 8 | 65 | He grinned again, and advanced yet another step. |
| 8 | 66 | I knew I did not have time to turn and clutch at the weapon in its sheath on the table, with my pouch and clothes, and even had I been able to reach it and remove it from the sheath I did not think it would do me much good. |
| 8 | 67 | I saw how this man handled steel, and I saw that the blade itself was much marked. |
| 8 | 68 | It had seen a plenitude of combat. |
| 8 | 69 | Before him, even with the blade in my grasp, I would have been, I knew, for all practical purposes, defenseless. |
| 8 | 70 | "I am unarmed," I said. |