keep her silence, then composing mental notes anyway—some haughty, some cold, some with a lace-edge of flirtation. Alain was bone-tired, and although both of them had bathed in the stream near the west end of the home acre, he thought he still smelled fish and seaweed on himself. He smiled—a thin, hurty smile. ”For a moment Rhea only gawped at him, genuinely surprised for one of the few times in her life, and then she once more broke out in chuffing bursts of laughter.
Then an answer rose to her lips, and she spoke it calmly enough. These small leather accessories, big enough for a few coins but not much more, were more often carried by ladies than gentlemen, although that was not a hard-and-fast rule of fashion. It was hung on a chain that ran through the eyeholes. Goodeven, sirs, and may your days be long upon the earth!”They bowed in unison, boots forward, and thanked her in an unintended chorus that made her laugh and clap her hands.
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