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"You are talking as in a fever," said Wanda agitatedly, "and you really love me so endlessly" She held me to her breast, and covered me with kisses

"You really want it?"

"I swear to you now by God and my honor, that I shall be your slave, wherever and whenever you wish it, as soon as you command," I exclaimed, hardly master of myself

"And if I take you at your word?" said Wanda

"Please do!"

"All this appeals toelse--to know that a man orships me, and whom I love with all my heart, is so wholly mine, dependent on my will and caprice, ely at htfully frivolous you are to blame," she continued "It almost seems as if you were afraid of me already, but you have sworn"

"And I shall keep inning to enjoy it, and, heaven help me, on't stick to fancies now You shall become my slave, and I--I shall try to be Venus in Furs"