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But there were people around, even though I didn't feel their eyes on me. Strange thing, but only later did I realize that instead of the outrage that should have overcome me under normal circumstances from such behavior of the count (because I'm not so spoiled as to enjoy public humiliation), I felt a trembling anxiety and the peculiarity, the charm of these minutes. Dan smiled. Not as self-confidently as he sometimes did when he wanted to anger me, but somehow so gently and understandingly, as if he were a wise adult man against me, a silly little girl. In principle, that's how it was. Under normal circumstances, this would have irritated me too, but now I just enjoyed the fact that I was here, kidn*pped and defenseless, but my hero would save me, hug me to his chest, and never let me b
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