Quite a love feast, thought Hardin. "I wasn't complaining about the lack ofefficiency, milord, as much  as of the definite excess of efficiency on thepart  of  the  Anacreonians  ? though  in  another  and  more  destructivedirection.""Ah, yes,  Anacweon." A negligent wave of the hand.  "I have just come fromtheah.  Most bahbawous  planet. It  is thowoughly inconceivable  that humanbeings could  live heah in the  Pewiphewy.

Hardin interrupted  dryly: "The  Anacreonians, unfortunately, have  all theelementary requirements for warfare and all the fundamental necessities fordestruction.""Quite, quite." Lord Dorwin seemed annoyed, perhaps at being stopped midwayin his sentence. "But we ahn't to discuss business now, y'know. Weally, I'mothahwise concuhned. Doctah Piwenne,  ahn't you going to show me the secondvolume? Do, please."The lights clicked out and for the next half-hour Hardin might as well havebeen on    they paid him. The  book upon thescreen made little sense  to him, nor did he trouble to make the attempt tofollow,  but Lord  Dorwin  became quite  humanly excited  at  times. Hardinnoticed that  during these moments of  excitement the chancellor pronouncedhis r's .

When  the  lights  went  on  again,  Lord Dorwin  said:  "Mahvelous.  Twulymahvelous.  You  ah not,  by  chance,  intewested in  ahchaeology, ah  you,Hahdin?""Eh?" Hardin shook himself out of an abstracted reverie. "No, milord, can'tsay  I am.  I'm a psychologist  by original  intention and a  politician byfinal decision.""Ah! No  doubt intewesting studies. 1, myself,  y'know" ?he helped himselfto a giant pinch of snuff ?dabble in ahchaeology.""Indeed?""His lordship,"  interrupted Pirenne,  "is most thoroughly  acquainted withthe field.""Well, p'haps  I am, p'haps I am," said his lordship  complacently. "I havedone an awful amount  of wuhk in the science. Extwemely well-read, in fact.

I've gone  thwough all  of Jawdun, Obijasi,  Kwomwill ... oh,  all of them,y'know.""I've heard  of them, of course," said Hardin,  "but I've never read them.""You  should some day,  my deah fellow.  It would  amply repay you.  Why, Icutainly considah it well  wuhth the twip heah to the Pewiphewy to see thiscopy of  Lameth. Would you believe it, my Libwawy  totally lacks a copy. Bythe  way,   Doctah  Piwenne,  you  have   not  fohgotten  yoah  pwomise  totwansdevelop a copy foah me befoah I leave?""Only too pleased.""Lameth, you must know,"  continued the chancellor, pontifically, "pwesentsa new and most  intwesting addition to my pwevious knowledge of the 'OwiginQuestion ."'
"Which question?" asked Hardin.