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name," he said. "But you are right in trusting me. I would--I would do
anything for you.... This is nothing."
She caught at her breath. She did not care to ask why. But compared
with Bechamel!--"We take each other on trust," she said. "Do you want to
know--how things are with me?"
"
That man," she went on, after the assent of his listening silence,
promised to help and protect me. I was unhappy at home--never mind
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why. A stepmother--Idle, unoccupied, hindered, cramped, that is
enough, perhaps. Then he came into my life, and talked to me of art
and literature, and set my brain on fire. I wanted to come out into the
world, to be a human being--not a thing in a hutch. And he--"
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I know," said Hoopdriver.
And now here I am--"
I will do anything," said Hoopdriver.
She thought. "You cannot imagine my stepmother. No! I could not describe
her--"
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I am entirely at your service. I will help you with all my power."
I have lost an Illusion and found a Knight-errant." She spoke of
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