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Here, O hearts that beat with mine, is the saddest of all tales. It is / the tale of the breaking of a man's faith in woman. A thousand arrows / over their places of slumber.
It was on the Bund of Shanghai that the father of Sway Lim had said these / words to him: "Son, mistrust all white women; they are but pale devils; / they shall ensnare you."