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She was not crying, but she was drawing her
breath in great gasps in a manner which scared Peter terribly. Peter had
never had a woman cling to him in that way, and frightened as he was,
he made three very interesting discoveries:
1. That a man's shoulder seems planned by nature as a resting place for
a woman's head.
2. That a man's arm about a woman's waist is a very pleasant position
for the arm.
3. That a pair of woman's arms round a man's neck, with the clasped
hands, even if gloved, just resting on the back of his neck, is very
satisfying.
Peter could not see much of the woman. His arm told him that she was
decidedly slender, and he could just catch sight of a small ear and a
cheek, whose roundness proved the youth of the person. Otherwise he
could only see a head of very pretty brown hair, the smooth dressing of
which could not entirely conceal its longing to curl.
When Mutineer stopped, Peter did not quite know what to do. Of course it
was his duty to hold the woman till she recovered herself.


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