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'What does this mean? One comes to talk with you, and you go to
smoking.'
"And she sat down beside me on the sofa, resting against my shoulder. I
recoiled, that I might not touch her.
"
'I see that you are displeased with what I wish to play on Sunday,'
said she.
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'I am not at all displeased,' said I.
'Can I not see?'
'Well, I congratulate you on your clairvoyance. Only to you every
baseness is agreeable, and I abhor it.'
"'If you are going to swear like a trooper, I am going away.'
"'Then go away. Only know that, if the honor of the family is nothing to
you, to me it is dear. As for you, the devil take you!'
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'What! What is the matter?'
'Go away, in the name of God.'
But she did not go away. Was she pretending not to understand, or did
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