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"But the water feels delicious!" said I

"And your throat is all scratched and swollen!"

"But your hands are very gentle and soothing!"

"I don't hurt you, then?"

"On the contrary, the--the pain is very trifling, thank you"

"Yet you fainted a little while ago"

"Then it was very foolish of h the

trickling water, I saw that she was s

"--fellow!" said she And her lips were very sweet, and her eyes

very soft and tender--for an Amazon

And, when she had washed the blood from my face, she went to

fetch clean water from where I kept it in a bucket in the corner

Now, at my elbow, upon the table, lay the knife, a heavy, cluht to use in my carpentry, and I now,

lea blade

"Put it down!" she co!"

"For a woman's hand," I added, "so hideously unfeminine!"

"Some men are so hatefully--hideously-- "I expected--him--and you are terribly like him"

"As to that," said I, "Iof the same build--"