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“I do nothing for any one in the world but you. But for you I'll do anything." "Good, good," said Kate. "That's how I like you." He waited again an instant. "Then you swear to it?" "To 'it'? To what?" "Why, that you do 'like' me. For it's only for that, you know, that I'm letting you do—well, God knows what with me.”

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Book:The Wings of the Dove

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