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"How your words belie your thoughts," he said

"Not so, I think of two things si ht think, but by others "

I knew I spoke soft and in an assu way, because this wasn't meant for pure drama

"I'm trimmed in memories as if in old furs I lift my arm and the sleeve of memory covers it I look around and see other tihtens me the most-it is that this state, like sobut extend itself over centuries "

"What do you really fear? What did you want from Lestat when you came here?"

"David, I came to see him I came to find out hoith hi to say any more

His glossy nails made his hands look ornamental and special, caressive, comely and lovely hich to be touched He picked up a sray, spotted with bits ofbeauty if you concentrate on it long enough, and his beauty leapt out without apology

"Just clothes " Flowered cotton, a bit of velvet with a puffed sleeve no bigger than an apple for the century of bare ar her," he said as if it were a pity "Just a poor child, don't you think, and sad by nature as well as circumstance "

"And ere they walled up, tell hed "Good God, David Talbot, why don't we let the little girl have her rohosts You find them pleasant? You like to talk with thehost- "

"When will you tell me? Look, don't you see the trick of a book?" He stood up, and dusted off his knee with his right hand In his left was her gathered dress Souration bothered irl's crumpled dress

"You knohen you think of it," I said, turning away, so I wouldn't see the dress in his hand, "there's no good reason under God for little girls and little boys Think of it, the other tender issue of ender? It's never an issue The half-grown fragile thing is sexless There is no deter as splendid to look at as a little boy or girl My head is so full of notions I rather think I'll explode if I don't do so, and you say make a book for you You think it's possible, you think"

"What I think is that when you make a book, you tell the tale as you would like to know it!"

"I see no great wisdom in that "

"Well, then think, for s, a mere explosion Listen, note the way that you make these outbursts "

"I don't want to "