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Long had been her tale in the telling, and too long, perhaps, have I been in the repeating -- but not every day are the mists rolled away to reveal undreamed secrets of earth-youth. And I have set it down here, adding nothing, taking nothing from it; translating liberally, it is true, but constantly striving, while putting it into idea-forms and phraseology to be readily understood by my readers, to keep accurately to the spirit. And this, I must repeat, I have done throughout my narrative, wherever it has been necessary to record conversation with the Murians.
Rising, I found I was painfully stiff -- as muscle-bound as though I had actually trudged many miles. Larry, imitating me, gave an involuntary groan.