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"It was a girl looking atto be expected He paused Then, "Get that? A girl! She was

bending over me - pretty close - I could almost touch her I can see her

now as plainly as I see you She was blonde One of those pale-gold

blondes with hair like honey and features cut with a chisel You know

the type Some people think it's cold It's a kind of beauty that's

always appealed to h" He stopped

"Well," Honey prodded him with a kind of non-co If you can believe uess I

stared for a quarter of a ht up into the most beautiful

pair of eyes that I ever saw in ht down into theray as a cloud and as cold as ice And they had lashes - " For a moment

the quiet directness of Billy's narrative was disturbed by a whiff of

inner tumult "Whehat eyelashes! Honey, did you ever co around the edge? You know

how pure and unspoiled and virginal it seems That was her eyes They

sort of hypnotized ht What do you think?"