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[Another stock phrase.]
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he'd stroked her hair and said in his deepest
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voice and correctest English, as to a dear child,
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"I shall never forget this moment."
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But though he had breathed heavily, groaned as if ecstatic, what he'd
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really felt throughout was an odd detachment as though someone
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else were Master.
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Strive as he might to be transported, he had heard his mind take notes
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upon the scene:
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This is what they call passion.
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I am experiencing it.
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Many of the digger machines were out of order in the penny arcades and