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she moaned, twisting in his arms on the sofa. “Say or do something original—and I’ll love you. Anything but the wheezy gags, the doddering compliments, the kisses that were stale before Antony passed them off on Cleopatra!”“Alas,” he said, “there is nothing new in the world except the rose and gold and ivory of your perfect loveliness. And there is nothing original except my love for you.”“Old stuff,” she sneered, moving away from him. “They all say that.”“They?” he queried, jealously.“The ones ...before you, of course,” she replied, in a tone of languid reminiscence. “It only took four lovers to convince me of the quotidian sameness of man. After that, I always knew what to expect. It was maddening: they came to remind me of so many cuckoo clocks, with the eternal monotony of their advances, the punctuality of their compliments. I soon knew the whole repertory. As for kissing—each one began with my hands, and ended with my lips. There was one genius, though, who kissed me on the throat the first time.
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