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CHAPTER XI GREEN MEN AND WHITE APES
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A Torquasian sword smote1 a glancing blow across the forehead of Carthoris. He had a fleeting2 vision of soft arms about his neck, and warm lips close to his before he lost consciousness.
How long he lay there senseless he could not guess; but when he opened his eyes again he was alone, except for the bodies of the dead green men and Dusarians, and the carcass of a great banth that lay half across his own.
Thuvia was gone, nor was the body of Kar Komak among the dead.
Weak from loss of blood, Carthoris made his way slowly toward Aaanthor, reaching its outskirts3 at dark.
He wanted water more than any other thing, and so he kept on up a broad avenue toward the great central plaza4, where he knew the precious fluid was to be found in a half-ruined building opposite the great palace of the ancient jeddak, who once had ruled this mighty5 city.
Disheartened and discouraged by the strange sequence of events that seemed fore-ordained to thwart6 his every attempt to serve the Princess of Ptarth, he paid little or no attention to his surroundings, moving through the deserted7 city as though no great white apes lurked8 in the black shadows of the mystery-haunted piles that flanked the broad avenues and the great plaza.
But if Carthoris was careless of his surroundings, not so other eyes that watched his entrance into the plaza, and followed his slow footsteps toward the marble pile that housed the tiny, half-choked spring whose water one might gain only by scratching a deep hole in the red sand that covered it.
And as the Heliumite entered the small building a dozen mighty, grotesque
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astonishment
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demon
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adversaries
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watchfulness
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警惕,留心; 警觉(性) | |
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