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The chill of daas in the air when I awoke, and it was some

few

there beside Char, I rose and walked up and

down to reduce the stiffness in ht it, for I was in no

s stood ready,

as her orderly hands had set them, and the plates and cups and

saucers twinkled at me from the little cupboard I had made to

hold them; a cupboard whose construction she had overlooked with

a critical eye And Ipermitted to drive in three nails with her own hand--I

could put er on those very nails; how she had tapped at

those nails for fear ofthem; how beautiful she had

looked in her coarse apron, and with her sleeves rolled up over

her round white arms--hoomanly and sweet; yet I had dared to

think--had dared to call her--a Messalina! Oh, that ue