I am told said she saucily that though you are a military man you are afraid of powder
"I am told," said she, saucily, "that though you are a military
man, you are afraid of powder."
"To prove that the assertion is calumnious," replied he, "I have
only to do this."
Whereupon he lightly kissed her on the cheek, and his lips showed
that he was not.
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