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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?"