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Slowly she raised her downcast eyes and looked after Richard Calmady, his figure a blackness, as of vacancy, against the elaborate wrought-ironwork of the balcony. And so doing, an adorable sensation moved her, at once of hungry tenderness and of fear fear of something unknown, in a way fundamental, incalculable, the like of which she had never experienced before.
The window stood wide open on to the balcony, the elaborately wrought-ironwork of which scroll and vase, plunging dolphin and rampant sea-horse detached itself from the opaque background of the night. And in at the window came luscious scents from the garden below, a chime of falling water, the music, faint and distant, in rising and falling cadence of a marching military band.
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