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Red Axe

CHAPTER XXIX
8/19

Again I say--false flower!'" "You can turn the corners, Sir Juggler, with the cup and ball of words," answered Helene.

"So much they have already taught you in a court.

But there is one thing that your fine-feathered tutors have not taught you--to make love to two women in one house and hide it from both of them.

Hot and cold may not come too near each other.

They will mix and make lukewarm of both." A wise observation, and one that I wished I had made myself.
"May the devil take all princes and princesses!" I began, as I had done to the Prince himself.
Helene shook her head.
"Hugo," she said, "I was but a simpleton when I came hither, and knew nothing.


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