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"And you confine your curiosity to your own business?"
"Not entirely," he answered, and wondered if she were experimenting
with the letter "C". "For instance I am curious about you."
Her eyes challenged him with their old defiance. "And I am certainly not
your business."
"I admit that you are not--but that does not decrease my curiosity."
For a moment her smile grew wistful. "And what, I wonder," she asked,
with the faintest quiver of her cherry-coloured lips, "would you like to
know?"
"Oh, everything!" he replied unhesitatingly. There was no longer in his
mind the slightest wish to avoid the approaching flirtation. On the
contrary, he felt he should welcome it, if she would only continue to
look like this. She was not beautiful--yet he realized that she did not
need beauty when she could play so easily with a look or a smile on the
heartstrings. A rush of tenderness overwhelmed his reserve at the very
instant when her lashes trembled and drooped, and she murmured in a
whisper that enchanted him: "Oh, but everything is too little.


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