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She told her story evenly, with her eyes on the water, only now and then, when I, too, sat looking seaward, I thought she glanced at me furtively. And once, in the middle of it, she stopped altogether.
"You don't realize it, probably," she protested, "but you look like a -- a war god. Your face is horrible."