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"A WOMAN never agreed to it! " said my knowing friend to me. / "That one thing she'd refuse to do for Solomon's mines in fee: / No woman ever will make herself look older than she is. " / I did not answer; but I thought, "you err there, ancient Quiz."
It took a rare one, true, to do it; for she was surely rare- / As rare a soul at that sweet time of her life as she was fair. / And urging motives, too, were strong, for ours was a passionate case, / Yea, passionate enough to lead to freaking with that young face.