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SEVEN STUDIOUS SISTERS
found before words, Latin or other, were invented.
Then Clementine drew back trembling and looked, and behold, he who had been but a wonderful voice was changed, and she saw that he was a man, and young, and comely, with merry eyes touched with sadness, and a mouth whose curves were both cynical and sweet.
"Why, why should you choose me?" asked the maiden, in a voice that shook for reverence.
"Because you are so adorably foolish!" cried the lover, forgetting, and that was a mistaken speech, which mere words could not explain away.
It was agreed between them that none should know what had befallen until the
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