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THAT TO ME? YOU? YOU PRATTLE ON ABOUT CHANGING THE WORLD? COULD YOU FIND THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT IT? TO KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE AND DO IT, WHATEVER THE COST? IS THERE ONE HUMAN ANYWHERE IN, YOU CARRY THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CHANGE. AND THAT IS TOO HEAVY TO BEAR.
'That's just an excuse!'
Susan glared at the tall figure. Then she turned and marched out of the room.
SUSAN?
She stopped halfway across the floor, but didn't turn around.
'Yes?'
REALLY . . . BONY KNEES?
'Yes!' THE WORLD WHO KNOWS WHAT DUTY MEANS?His hands opened and shut convulsively.I SAID YOU MUST REMEMBER . . . FOR US, TIME IS ONLY A PLACE. IT'S ALL SPREAD OUT. THERE IS WHAT IS, AND WHAT WILL BE. IF YOU CHANGE THAT

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'How old are you?'
'Sixteen.'
'Oh, my.' Albert rolled his eyes. 'How long have you been sixteen?'
'Since I was fifteen, which was like hot brown water. Albert's cocoa had fat floating in it; if you turned the mug upside down, it would be a little while before anything fell out.
'Your mum and dad,' said Albert, when she had a chocolate moustache that was far too young for her, 'did they ever . . . explain anything to you?'
'Miss Delcross did that in Biology,' said Susan. 'She got it wrong,' she added.
'I mean about your grandfather,' said Albert., of course. Are you stupid?''My, my, how the time does pass,' said Albert. 'Do you know why you're here?''No . . . but,' Susan hesitated, 'but it's got something to do with . . . it's something like . . . I'm seeing things that people don't see, and I've met someone who's just a story, and I know I've been here before . . . and all these skulls and bones on things . . .' Albert's rangy, vulture‑like shape loomed over her. 'Would you like a cocoa?' he said.It was a lot different from the cocoa at the school

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our organ especially for the occasion, he said.
'Hahaha, organ!' said the Bursar.
And a mightyThere was a moment of sound so loud that the aural nerves shut down. When they opened again, somewhere around the pain threshold, they could just make out the opening and extremely bent bars of Fondel's 'Wedding March', being played with gusto by someone who'd discovered that the instrument didn't just have three keyboards but a whole range of special acoustic effects, ranging from Flatulence to Humorous Chicken Squawk. The occasional 'oook!' of appreciation could be heard amidst the sonic explosion. one it is, as organs go—' Ridcully stopped, and signalled to a couple of student wizards. 'Just take the Bursar away and make him lie down for a while, will you?' he said. 'I think someone's been feeding him meat again.'There was a hiss from the far end of the Great Hall, and then a strangled squeak. Vimes stared at the monstrous array of pipes.'Got eight students pumping the bellows,' said Ridcully, to a background of wheezes. 'It's got three keyboards and a hundred extra knobs, including twelve with "?" on them.''Sounds impossible for a man to play,' said Vimes politely.'Ah. We had a stroke of luck there—'

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was also the rhythmical sound of dirt being shovelled and rubble being moved.
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So . . . a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of seminal work How to Kille Insects. All 2,000 pages of it.

Vimes felt quite light-hearted as he walked up Scoone Avenue. He was aware that there was an inner Vimes screaming his head off. He ignored him.
You couldn't be a real copper in Ankh-Morpork and stay sane. You had tothem were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.The muffled voices seemed to be getting closer.'Gold, gold, gold—''Now you're singing the chorus!'On the other hand, there were proper ways of entering a library.He waddled over to the shelves and selected Hump-tulip's

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were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
He dropped the pole, picked up the crossbow, spun past the window, fired at an indistinct shape on the opera house roof opposite as if the back and met a pair of puzzled gazes.
' 'Morning, Captain Vimes,' said the retrophrenologist, a hammer still upraised in one massive hand.
Vimes smiled manically.
'Just thought—'he began, and then went on,'—I saw an interesting rare butterfly on the roof over there.'
Troll and patient stared politely past him.
'But there wasn't,' said Virnes.bow could possibly carry across that range, leapt across the room and wrenched at the door. Something smashed into the doorframe as the door swung to behind him.Then it was down the back stairs, out of the door, over the privy roof, into Knuckle Passage, up the back steps of Zorgo the Retrophrenologist,Zorgo's operating room and over to the window.Zorgo and his current patient looked at him curiously.Pugnant's roof was empty. Vimes turned

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hesitated. 'Because a dog told me' was not, she judged, a career-advancing thing to say at this point.
'Woman's intuition?' she suggested.
'I suppose,' said Vimes, 'you wouldn't hazard an intuitive guess as to what was stolen?'
Angua it hardly mattered.
It was so simple! Why hide it away? Probably because people were afraid. People were always afraid of power. It made them nervous.
Edward picked it up, cradled it for a while, and found that it seemed to fit his arm and shoulder very snugly.
You're mine.
And that, more or less, was the end of Edward d'Eath. Something continued for a while, but what it was, and how it thought, wasn't entirely human.

It was nearly noon. Sergeant Colon had taken the new recruits down to the archery butts in Butts Treat.
Vimes went on patrol with Carrot.shrugged. Carrot noticed how interestingly her chest moved.'Something the Assassins wanted to keep where they could look at it?' she said.'Oh, yes,' said Vimes. 'I suppose next you'll tell me this dog saw it all?''Woof?' Edward d'Eath drew the curtains, bolted the door and leaned on it. It had been so easy!He'd put the bundle on the table. It was thin, and about four feet long.He unwrapped it carefully, and there . . . it . . . was.It looked pretty much like the drawing. Typical of the man – a whole page full of meticulous drawings of crossbows, and this in the margin, as though

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Enraged at having to borrow money for this poor funeral. Enraged at the weather, at this common cemetery, at the way the background noise of the city didn't change in any way, even on such an occasion as this. Enraged at history. It was never meant to be .
That afternoon he sold what remained of the d'Eath estates, and enrolled again at the Guild school.
For the post-graduate course.
He got full marks, the first person in the history of the Guild ever to do so. His seniors described him as a man to watch – and, because there was something about him that made even Assassins uneasy, preferably from a long like this.It shouldn't have been like this.He looked across the river to the brooding bulk of the Palace, and his anger screwed itself up and became a lens.Edward had been sent to the Assassins' Guild because they had the best school for those whose social rank is rather higher than their intelligence. If he'd been trained as a Fool, he'd have invented satire and made dangerous jokes about the Patrician. If he'd been trained as a have broken into the Palace and stolen something very valuable from the Patrician.However . . . he'd been sent to the Assassins . .