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You're being evasive.β βAye. You might not like me anymore if I told you more about me. Why risk it?β βBut I want to know about you, Grayββ She pushed him away as he stopped and tried to claim her lips. βI want to know when you were born . . . where you were born . . .how many brothers and sisters you have . . . what your father and mother are like. . .β He laughed, his teeth white in the darkness. βI have six sisters and no brothers, my parents live in Surrey, and I was born in Penzance on the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and sixty-eight.β And Iβm a Knight of the Bath whose head is going to roll, he thought to himself. βAnd your father and mother?β βGood parents. My father . . . owns land.β βIn Surrey?β βAye.
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