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with you! Are you not ashamed to speak again of that pretty mess? I certainly shall be careful not to mention his name to my father!"
And, with a scandalized grimace, Gina passed into the other room, humming a popular song. Laurent remained stupefied, mechanically looking at the hyacinths, pretty and crisp, of which Gina was so careful. For an instant he nourished a desire to ravage these flowers, persuaded for the moment that he had taken an eternal dislike to his inhuman little cousin.
