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The air in the narrow street, which was not eight feet wide, swarmed with smells
impossible to define; but all at once the pleasantly pungent odour of Chinese
incense drifted across the girl's face, and gratefully she quickened her
inhalations. “What are you doing here? How dare you come to my
rooms!”
The man stepped into the middle of the room. He could imagine it even if he could not feel it. She reminded him sometimes of the one holy and ineffable Madonna, at others
of Berode, the great courtezan of her day, who had sent kings away from her
doors, and had just announced her intention of ending her life in a convent. Her gown was minimalist compared
to those concoctions of boning and lace of long ago, she
reflected, but that did not stop it from getting caught on
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brambles and twigs. "
"So have we all. What other reason could there
be? It’s more complex, but it’s better.
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