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APPLE-BLOSSOMS AND WHITE MUSLIN

“You have been a good girl, Mignon,” he said calmly.

She thanked him shyly and waited. Suddenly he bent down, took her cheeks between his hands, kissed her tenderly on the forehead, and with bowed head walked back into the Marmouset alone.

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