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CHAPTER XII

It was summer and sizzling hot. The same longing he had felt before began to stir again in Bambi.

But much more strongly now than then. It seethed in his blood and made him restless. He strayed far afield.

One day he met Faline. He met her quite unexpectedly, for his thoughts were so confused, his senses so clouded by the restless desire that raged within him, that he did not even recognize Faline. She was standing in front of him. Bambi stared at her speechless for a while. Then he said as though fascinated, “How beautiful you have grown, Faline!”

“So you recognize me again?” Faline replied.

“How could I help recognizing you?” cried Bambi. “Didn’t we grow up together?”

Faline sighed. “It’s a long time since we’ve seen each other,” she said. Then she added,

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