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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER III
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Do you see my white, sharp, enchanting little teeth?
Kissing, I used to bite.

Not painfully, no--just a trifle.

Caressing tenderly, I used to bite a little, until the first bright little drops appeared, until a cry came forth which sounded like the laugh produced by tickling.

That was very pleasant--think not it was unpleasant; otherwise they whom I kissed would not come back for more kisses.

It is now that I can kiss only once--how sad--only once! One kiss for each--how little for a loving heart, for a sensitive soul, striving for a great union! But it is only I, the sad one, who kiss but once, and must seek love again--he knows no other love any more: to him my one, tender, nuptial kiss is inviolable and eternal.


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