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The Arrow of Gold

CHAPTER II
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Beware of the others, too, of course; but a small mouth is a fatal sign.

Well, the royalist sympathizers can't charge Dona Rita with any lack of generosity from what I hear.

Why should I judge her?
I have known her for, say, six hours altogether.

It was enough to feel the seduction of her native intelligence and of her splendid physique.

And all that was brought home to me so quickly," he concluded, "because she had what some Frenchman has called the 'terrible gift of familiarity'." Blunt had been listening moodily.


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