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speak. As usual, he kept looking not directly at her, but a little above her, and his voice was melodious and soft. He described his day, telling her he had visited the king at Windsor, where he had been invited to amuse the little dukes, who wore velvet jackets and lace collars. He related all this with light vivid touches, mimicking the people he had seen, twinkling, cocking his head slightly.
"I produced a whole flock of white doves from my gibus," said Shock.
And the dwarf's little palms were clammy, and you're making it all up, reflected Nora in brackets.
"Those pigeons, you know, went flying around the queen. She shoo-flied them but kept smiling out of polit