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The Firing Line

CHAPTER VI
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I don't want to forget that night, or that girl.

Must I ?" "Are you, in your inmost thoughts, fastidious in thinking of that girl?
Is there any reservation, any hesitation ?" He said, meeting her eyes: "She is easily the nicest girl I ever met--the very nicest.

Do you think that I might have her for a friend ?" "Do you mean this girl, Calypso ?" "Yes." "Then I think that she will return to you the exact measure of friendship that you offer her....

Because, Mr.Hamil, she is after all not very old in years, and a little sensitive and impressionable." He thought to himself: "She is a rather curious mixture of impulse and reason; of shyness and audacity; of composure and timidity; of courage and cowardice and experience.

But there is in her no treachery; nothing mentally unwholesome." They stood silent a moment smiling at each other rather seriously; then her smooth hand slid from his, and she drew a light breath.
"What a relief!" she said.
"What ?" "To know you are the kind of man I knew you were.


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