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He turned his lip to hers, and with his hand

Called back the tangles of her wandering hair;

Even then their love they could not all command,

And half forgot their danger and despair:

Antonia’s patience now was at a stand⁠—

“Come, come, ’tis no time now for fooling there,”

She whispered, in great wrath⁠—“I must deposit

This pretty gentleman within the closet: