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CHAPTER VIII I | SEE was still asleep inside the house. He stood . mcking down upon her in the half-light. She | ®=med frail, childish, and sweet, with the shadow | mCer the eyelids, her mouth faintly drooping, her ~ 3gzre reduced to almost nothing beneath the

  • 3aaket. He thought of that drama of strength

| ax weakness, of conquering and being conquered, | #rng it to this small person, soft in sleep. Now | $a he was looking at her, he had no reservations; I x ly seemed a miracle that she should be his. | == wondered at the mere chance it was; Slender | X= speaking to him of the dance and the racing, | aw~ing to Tsé Lani, this little incident and that, {= out of nowhere that which might never have | m= entered and became the core of his life. T=e sun would be up soon. He went to meet it. ‘Dawn Boy, little chief, May all be beautiful before me as I wander...’ ! == woke happy, watching him under lazy eye- | m= z= he stood outside the door, naked save for | a= r=ech-clout, with the level sunlight touching lw =:cs of his flanks and ribs, making a golden smefe—on where his upraised arms bunched the

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