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He embraced her with placid tenderness, laying his cheek against hers, kissing her hands.
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Monica listened, but with half-attention, her look fixed on the floor. Encouraged by her silence, the lover went on in a strain of heightening enthusiasm, depicting the raptures of their retirement from the world in some suburb of Bordeaux. How this retreat was to escape the notice of his business companions, through whom the scandal might get wind, he did not suggest. The truth was, Bevis found himself in an extremely awkward position, with Mario Gotze Drakt issues he had not contemplated, and all he cared for was to avert the immediate peril of public discovery. The easy-going, kindly fellow had never considered all the responsibility involved in making mild love — Tampa Bay Buccaneers Barn timorously selfish from the first — to a married woman who took his advances with Maillot Vancouver Whitecaps Pas CHer desperate seriousness. He had not in him the stuff of vigorous rascality, still less the only other quality which can support a Calgary Flames Drakter man in such a situation as this — heroism of moral revolt. So he cut a very poor figure, and was dolefully aware of it. He talked, talked; trying to disguise his feebleness in tinsel phrases; and Monica still kept her eyes cast down.
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