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her dark eager eyes like
the wide wings of a soaring hawk.
I was good friends with all three of them but best of all with
Elladorlong before that feeling changedfor both of us.
From herand from Somelwho talked very freely with meI
learned at last something of the viewpoint of Herland toward its visitors.
Here they wereisolatedhappycontentedwhen the booming
buzz of our biplane tore the air above them.
Everybody heard it--saw it--for miles and milesword flashed
all over the countryand a council was held in every town and village.
And this was their rapid determination:
From another country. Probably men. Evidently highly
civilized. Doubtless possessed of much valuable knowledge. May be
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dangerous. Catch them if possible; tame and train them if necessary This
may be a chance to re-establish a bi-sexual state for our people.
They were not afraid of us--three million highly intelligent
women--or two millioncounting only grown-ups--were not likely to be
afraid of three young men. We thought of them as "Women and
therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything
to be afraid of
and certainly more than one thousand since they had
outgrown the feeling.
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