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La-bas

CHAPTER VIII
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If you will promise to make no demands on me and to be good, I will come here night after next at nine o'clock." He promised whatever she wished.

And as he raised his head from her hands and as his lips brushed lightly over her breast, which seemed to tighten, she disengaged her hands, caught his nervously, and, clenching her teeth, offered her neck to his lips.

Then she fled.
"Oof!" he said, closing the door after her.

He was at the same time satisfied and vexed.
Satisfied, because he found her enigmatic, changeful, charming.

Now that he was alone he recalled her to memory.


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