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's face. "I'm sorry."
"There's no need to be, chere," he said gently. "You had to
learn to repress physical actions that the rest of us take for
granted. It's going to take a long time to break that self-
conditioning.
"Break it? What do you mean?"
"Ask me that again after dinner. Looks like the vegetable
course is almost done."
"But you just put them in."
"I was just blanching them."
"Where'd you learn to cook, anyway?"
"Part of being a good thief is being able to hide in plain
sight. The guild made sure that I learned a lot of different
skills so that I could lay low for a while if the situation with
the law got too dangerous. I apprenticed for about a year under a
gourmet chef. I picked up a few things, and taught myself after
that."
"Did you ever think of going straight?"
"A few times. My heart just wasn't in it. I'm a devious
little weasel by nature. Sometimes I wonder what would have
happened if my parents had raised me to be a stockbroker or
something like that. I might have been the next Michael Milkin."
"I'm tryi
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