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urbs

n. A walled city in Ancient Rome.

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Evanie had spoken of the city of Urbs and the Master, but only vaguely.

We—the people around here—are not fond of Urbs and the Immortals, and I would not like to influence you, Tom, for in all truth it's the partisans of the Master who have the best of it, not his enemies.

To understand Urbs and the Master you must of course know something of history since your—sleep.

He has bred out criminals and the feeble-minded, he has impressed his native English on every tongue, he has built Urbs, the vast, glittering, bril­liant, wicked world capital, and there he rules with his sister, Margaret of Urbs,, beside him.

The revolutionaries were gradually filtering into Urbs, and the day of the uprising was at hand.

They're stable as long as Urbs supplies enough energy to offset the losses.

All traffic and freight came in by rocket, the Triangles of Urbs, a means too expensive for general use, but the mines produced the highly-prized metal, platinum.

The morning life of Urbs was appearing, traffic flowed, pedestrians moved in and out of doorways.

In his mind was only the stun­ning thought that this colossus called Urbs was the city they were to attempt to conquer with their Weed army— a handful of less than twenty-five thousand!

In a moment they were over the canal and into Urbs Minor, where ten million people still moved about their occupations in utter ignorance of the revolution and its outcome.

Then he forgot all else as Urbs Minor appeared with its thousands of towers and, far across the valley, the misty peaks that were the colossus, Greater Urbs.

The Princess of whom he had heard, he supposed—the beautiful cruel Margaret of Urbs who, with her brother, ruled with an iron hand.

Gazing at her, frozen in utter surprise and fascina­tion, Tom Connor knew in that moment that the cruel Margaret of Urbs and the inky-haired, white-robed girl with whom he had spent those unforgettable moments in the wildwood outside the village of Ormon were one and the same!

Margaret of Urbs bent over Evanie, now fully conscious, but pale as death.

Margaret of Urbs does not care to have her private busi­ness broadcast to the city.