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your little mistress, when you care
to come by, and I'm Yuri's maid? We visit with the other little pets, and keep
out of the way when their fat-bellied friends come calling? I've had offers of
*that* more than once in this hotel, and I'd rather sweep floors for ever."
"Your imagination paints vivid pictures, Birgit, but I would never think
of you or Yuri's in that one. There is a picture, though, that you had Yuri's in
already. On Bell Street, I think, the family Warend is trying to sell a linen
and wool shop."
"On Bell Street? That must be---they can't be selling *that*
place---it's..."
"They have had a shipwreck, and they must make choices. This choice is
yours. Do you want that shop?"
"But surely that would cost, oh, I don't know, you can't be giving *that*
just for getting into Ania's pants."
"I wasn't wearing any."
"And I am not giving anything for that. It was a gift between us.
Such a shop would satisfy you as lore satisfies me, you would serve the people
of this city, and you could pay me such return as seems reasonable to your
merchant-family soul---no, I'm not spying on your mind, you walk like a
merchant's daughter, allow me the perceptions of the ordinary man. I expect
your family was d
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