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"Oh, I don't know about that, my dear Myra After all, as I have told

you, men of the Latin racesa compliment, and pretty women in Spain, Italy, or France, would

feel quite insulted if the men to whom they were introduced did not

profess to be hopelessly in love with them If you had lived abroad,

Myra, you would feel flattered rather than annoyed"

"Maybe--and old head

"If you are right, then Don Carlos isto amuse himself at

my expense I have no use for a professional philanderer who i of the Gypsies

prophecy! Pouf!"

Yet as she dressed for dinner a little later she found herself

recalling the passionate words of Don Carlos, reht in his dark eyes, the vibrant note in his deep, , and wishing with all her heart that

Tony Standish was a little more like Don Carlos de Ruiz

"I' to lose my heart