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| 27 | 1121 | View more quotes about portus">Portus calmly watched him approach. |
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| 27 | 1118 | This had not been clearly understood, she is sure, by all members of the group until after the encounter in the grasslands. |
| 27 | 1119 | For example, it seems clear that this had not been clearly understood by Mirus, who seemed to have taken it for granted, and naturally, however unwisely, that the leadership of the group was in the grip of one of his own kind, a human, presumably he whom we now choose to refer to as the "spokesman". |
| 27 | 1120 | The beasts, Ellen supposes, permitted, and doubtless even encouraged, this misapprehension, perhaps as a concession to human vanity, one acceptable in virtue of its utility in furthering their projects. |
| 27 | 1121 | Portus calmly watched him approach. |
| 27 | 1122 | The spokesman, half dazed, lifted his weapon and trained it on Portus's chest. |
| 27 | 1123 | "There were probably five or six men in each basket," said Portus quietly, gazing into the barrel of the weapon, whose capacities he now well understood. |
| 27 | 1124 | "You killed one tarn and disabled one basket. |