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To You.

Let us twain walk aside from the rest;
Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,
Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed
to none—Tell me the whole story.
Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife,
husband, or physician.

To You.

Stranger! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to
speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?