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Show Jeffries, Section 3, Page 49 '"Your highness, I couldn't. "I was going for it all. If I could hold his attention. A little cadre of Saracens waited mute and respectful by the escalator." "'Dare you refuse--' "Masoud. . . "His look of pleased surprise. "Your majesty, one day I'll accept, from the man of my small destiny, well you know, Dory, a girl's best friend. "Till the evening ends, sang Marie Muldaur. "Well Dorian I guess it was a strong mutual attraction "And you remembered his name, and the Oxford years, his drama, the thesis. . ." "How can you play dark Othello," I taunted, "without Desdemona?" "The ceremony was late that evening in the Coral Gables Congregational. The sheik stared with some confusion at the minister instructing him to cleave only to me. I mean there was a stir from the right side of the church from the 'bridesmaids.' So mother cried and father swore and screamed that he'd have an annulment, soon enough, but I whispered, 'Daddy, I'm twenty-four," and father was much pacified by the groom's regal wedding gift to him, the blank check--" "The bride-price--" |
