MALVA
give you an appetite! No, my lad, don't run after me, because I don't want to be between you and Vassili. You understand?"
"What have I done?" asked Iakov. "I haven't touched you."
"You daren't touch me," retorted Malva.
There was such a contemptuous tone in her voice that he resented this.
"So I dare not?" he replied, climbing up on the boat and seating himself at her side.
"No, you dare not."
"And if I touch you?"
"Try!"
"What would you do?"
"I'd give you such a box on the ear that you would fall into the water."
"Let's see you do it."
"Touch me if you dare!"
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