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Only I'll drone on and on from time to time--so that you won't forget that I am here beside you." She lay so still for a while that at last Nina leaned forward to look at her; then laughed.
"She's asleep," she said to Austin.
"No, I'm not," murmured the girl, unclosing her eyes; "Captain Selwyn knows; don't you?
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