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He smiled. "No, but I can put some there if you want it."

Whereat Cécile replied, "Ah--well! we cou'n' like you the leaz bit any-'ow."

I had not the faintest doubt she was lying. What was I to her? The times were fearfully out of joint; women as well as men were taking war's licenses, and with a boy's unmerciful directness I sprang to the conclusion that here was an adventuress. Yet I had some better thoughts too. While I felt a moral tipsiness going into all my veins, I asked myself if it was not mainly due to my own inability to rise in full manliness to a most exceptional situation. Her jaunty method of confronting it, was I not failing to regard that with due magnanimity? Was this the truth, or after all ought I really to see that at every turn of her speech, by coy bendings of the head, by the dark seductions of dim half-captive locks about her oval temples, and by many an indescribable swaying of the form and of the voice, I was being--to speak it brutally--challenged? Even in the poetic obscurity of the night I lost all steadiness of eye as I pertly said--

"Lieutenant Ferry is not sending me to any house."

"But if she--oh, yes!--Yes, to be sure; she could easily have got here yesterday afternoon."

He hiccoughed. "Let's--s'--see y' orders."

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