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"Peter," said she
"Yes, Charmian?"
"If ever you did meet this lady--I think--"
"Well?"
"I know--"
"What?"
"That you would fall a very easy victim!"
"I think not," said I
"You would be her slave in--a month--three weeks--or much less--"
"Preposterous!" I exclaimed
"If she set herself to make you!"
"That would be very immodest!" said I; "besides, no woman can
make a man love her"
"Do your books teach you that, Peter?" Here, finding I did not
answer, she laughed and nodded her head at me "You would be
head over ears in love before you knew it!"
"I think not," said I, srow sick with love, and never
knohat ailed him"
"Any man in such a condition would be a pitiful ass!" said I
Char
"Then, if this lady entle?"