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The Profiteers

CHAPTER X
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Here, you simply walk into my life and take me by storm.

You make a very foolish woman of me.

If I had to say to myself, 'Why, I have known him less than a week!' it would hurt my pride horribly." "Blessed little bit of shell that found a temporary shelter in my arm!" he exclaimed.

"All the same, I feel just as you do.

Out there, for all your graciousness, you were something sacred, something far away." "And here ?" she whispered.
"Shall I tell you ?" he asked, with a sudden fire in his eyes.
"For heaven's sake, no!" she begged, thrusting out her hands.


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