thing to interfere. You
will see to it that Aditya stays in the empire and adheres to the
Constitution and makes no trouble for anybody off-planet. I fancy you
won't find that too difficult. They'll be good, as long as you deny them
the means to be anything else. And make sure that they continue to call
you Lord-Master Proconsul."

Lecturing, he found, was dry work. He summoned a bartending robot:

"Ho, slave! Attend your Lord-Master!"

Then he had to use his ultraviolet pencil-light to bring it to him, and
dial for the brandy-and-soda he wanted. As long as that was necessary,
there really wasn't anything to worry about. But some of these days,
they'd build robots that would anticipate orders, and robots to operate
robots, and robots to supervise them, and....

No. It wouldn't quite come to that. A slave is a slave, but a robot is
only a robot. As long as they stuck to robots, they were reasonably
safe.

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| |10 |present; |present, | |
| |19 |tessallated |tessellated | |
| |28 |announcemnet |announcement | |
| |28 |intransigeant |intransigent | |
| |36 |tattoed |tattooed | |
| |37 |salutory |salutary | |
| |41 |constituion |constitution | |
| |43 |belligerant |belligerent | |
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