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" 'Quinn darling, coht me the most exquisite cameos, and she made them herself ¡¯

"Shock Heart-pounding shock Fury and delirium combined in me as never before

" 'The pleasure's all mine, Petronia,' I said I felt all the liquor I'd drunk rising in ain 'But you are very beautiful, letseen you twice or thrice by uess ¡¯

" 'How generous of you,' she answered ht, hushed and soft Of course it was female Or was it? 'And you, just come from your red-haired vixen,' she went on 'One would have expected to find you quite blinded by her light ¡¯

" 'She's not a vixen in any sense,' I declared,her It's a pleasure that you and I are now properly introduced ¡¯

"She turned, laughing under her breath to Aunt Queen

" 'He is quite the versatile gentle 'I rather thought I would like you if we ca to deterood part both and therefore neither one I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen I was born endoith the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose ¡¯

"Nash had brought a chair for ne in lass I sat down across from this spectacle, this creature, and I felt Goblin take hold of my shoulder

" 'Caution, Quinn,' he said to erously feverish of ain drunk I was appalled by as happening and monstrously exhilarated

"I saw the er's eyes shoot to my left where Goblin stood, but she could not see Goblin She only knew that Goblin was there

" 'So you think ofyour mind, it's a trait I can't seeift it runs rampant ¡¯

" 'Really,' said Aunt Queen, 'you hts ¡¯

" 'Sohts co man you are ¡¯

" 'So people tell ar Devil Island bears your name?¡¯

" 'It's the narand to take the sharp edge offabout this very person, and about the subject of reincarnation Petronia is a great believer in it, and that it happens over and over in her fae dreams ¡¯