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pressing hand, brow touching brow, and whispered to each other,
intoxicated with love.
The compartment in the middle served two purposes--for the public it was
a stage, for the actors a dining-room.
Ursus, ever delighting in comparisons, profited by the diversity of its
uses to liken the central compartment in the Green Box to the arradach
in an Abyssinian hut.
Ursus counted the receipts, then they supped. In love all is ideal. In
love, eating and drinking together affords opportunities for many sweet
promiscuous touches, by which a mouthful becomes a kiss. They drank ale
or wine from the same glass, as they might drink dew out of the same
lily. Two souls in love are as full of grace as two birds. Gwynplaine
waited on Dea, cut her bread, poured out her drink, approached her too
close.
"
Hum!" cried Ursus, and he turned away, his scolding melting into a
smile.
The wolf supped under the table, heedless of everything which did
actually not concern his bone.
Fibi and Vinos shared the repast, but gave little trouble. These
vagabonds, half wild and as uncouth as ever, spoke in the gipsy language
to each other.
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