"Yes," said Rhadampsicus, drily. "He is returning the compliment. It is
quaint to think of such small creatures--Ha! Nodalictha, you should be
pleased again. He is telling her that they will be married when they
reach Earth, and that she shall have a white dress and a veil and a
train. But I am afraid we cannot follow to witness the ceremony."
Their tentacles linked and their positron blasts mingling, the two of
them soared up from the surface of the ninth planet of Cetis Gamma.
They swept away, headed for their home at the extreme outer tip of the
most far-flung arm of the spiral outposts of the Galaxy.
"But still," said Nodalictha, as they swept through emptiness at a
speed unimaginable to humans, "they're wonderfully cute."
"Yes, darling," Rhadampsicus agreed, unwilling to start an argument so
soon after the wedding. "But not as cute as you."
* * * * *
On the space yacht, Lon Simpson tried to use his genius to invent a way
to get his handcuffs and leg-irons off. He failed completely.
Cathy had to get the keys out of the skipper's pocket and unlock them
for him.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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