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He was leaning his left arm on the little table beside him, and shading his eyes with the mutilated hand, and she noticed the nervous tension of the fingers and the throbbing of the scar on the wrist. She came up to him and called him softly by name. He started violently and raised his head. "I f-forgot," he stammered apologetically. "I was g-going to t-tell you about "
'For-gi-give me, Jerrie, he said, his chin beginning to quiver, and the great tears rolling down his face, 'I know you ca-can't, and I ou-oughtn't to have ask-asked it, bu-but I d-did love you so much, that I f-forgot how impossible it was f-for one like you to lo-love one li-like me. I am so small and insig-insignificant, and st-stutter so.
And then Lancelot suddenly shrank into his shell, claws and all, like an affrighted soldier-crab, hung down his head, and stammered out some incoherencies, 'N-n-not accustomed to talk to women ladies, I mean. F-forgot myself. Pray forgive me! And he looked up, and her eyes, half-amused, met his, and she saw that they were filled with tears.
"I think," she answered coldly, "that we can hold our personal opinions without ridiculing a woman whose guests we are." "Ah, yes! I f-forgot the obligations of hospitality here in Italy; they are a wonderfully hospitable people, these Italians. I'm sure the Austrians find them so. Won't you sit down?"
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