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| 33 | 164 | "What View more quotes about might">might explain it?" asked he with the lantern. |
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| 33 | 161 | "So?" said he who had admitted us. |
| 33 | 162 | "Why would this be?" asked Kurik. |
| 33 | 163 | "Surely this is not some vast, inexplicable, overwhelming coincidence". |
| 33 | 164 | "What might explain it?" asked he with the lantern. |
| 33 | 165 | "Consider women," said Kurik, "small, slight, lovely, desirable, an exciting and ideal form of wealth. |
| 33 | 166 | Are not such creatures esteemed trading goods, suitable plunder, desiderated loot, sought for, and fought for? While men are slain, are they not stripped and led away on their neck ropes? Will they survive, or perish? Surely those who, first, and best, learn the languages of their masters will, on the whole, be most pleasing and survive most frequently. |
| 33 | 167 | Thus, over millennia, in thousands of venues, the female with suitable linguistic aptitudes entwined within her hereditary coils will tend to be favored by the stern choices of a harsh world. |