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293 pages of information about Kimono.  “I have only paddled,”
said Asako, “when I was a little girl.”  Geoffrey could not
resist the temptation of the blue water and the lazy curling
waves.  In a few minutes the two men were walking down to the
sea’s edge, Geoffrey laughing at Reggie’s chatter.  His arms
were akimbo, with hands on the hips, hips which looked like the
boles of a mighty oak-tree.  He touched the ground with the
elasticity of Mercury; he pushed through the air with the
shoulders of Hercules.  The line of his back was pliant as a
steel blade.  In his hair the sun’s reflection shone like wires
of gold.  The Gods were come down in the semblance of men.  Yae
did not repress a sharp intake of her breath; and she squeezed
the hand of the gipsy girl as if pain had gripped her.  “How big
your husband is!” she said to Asako.  “What a splendid man!”
Asako thought of her husband as