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? ? ? ? 'My woman, my one small woman,' I said, my free hand petting her shoulder in the way all lovers know though never learn in school.
? ? ? ? 'My man,' she said, looking at me for an instant with tremulous lids which fluttered down and veiled her eyes as she rested her head against my breast with a happy little sigh.
? ? ? ? I looked toward the cutter. It was very close. A boat was being lowered.
? ? ? ? 'One kiss, dear love,' I whispered. 'One kiss more before they come.'
? ? ? ? 'And rescue us from ourselves,' she completed, with a most adorable smile, whimsical as I had never seen it, for it was whimsical.
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