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He had a theory that all
women like to feel their power over men. Few men have not this theory.
But there was in Vere something immensely independent, that seemed
without sex, and that hinted at a reserve not vestal, but very pure--
too pure, perhaps, to desire an empire which is founded certainly upon
desire.
And the Marchesino was essentially and completely the young animal;
not the heavy, sleek, and self-contented young animal that the
northern countries breed, but the frolicsome, playful, fiery young
animal that has been many times warmed by the sun.
Hermione felt that Artois' mood to-night echoed his mood at Frisio's,
and suddenly she thought once more of the visitors' book and of what
he had written there, surely in a moment of almost heated impulse. And
as she thought of it she was moved to speak of her thought. She had so
many secret reserves from Emile now that this one she could dispense
with.
"You remember that night when I met you on the sea?" she said to him.


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