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My Lady Nicotine

CHAPTER II
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Wondering how I could make it easier for him, I took up a book and pretended to read with deep attention, meaning to show him that he could go away if he liked without my noticing it.

At last he jumped up, and, looking at me boldly, as if to show that the house was his and he could do what he liked in it, went heavily from the room.

As soon as he was gone I laid down my book.

I was now in a state of nervous excitement, though outwardly I was quite calm.

I took a look at him as he went up the stairs, and noticed that he had slipped off his shoes on the bottom step.


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