Digital heart book

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"What direction did my infatuation, as you call it, take?"
"Marriage, I should say."
"Now you interest me," I returned, "and you must tell me more. Is this
Mona of yours the sole resident of the moon, of whom you spoke to
Thorwald?"
"Certainly she is, but you surely must be out of your head to call her my
Mona--I want no stronger proof."
"How so?" I asked.
"Why, because but yesterday you scarce wanted to have me speak to her. You
tried to keep your jealousy from me, but there was not room enough in all
the moon to hide it."
"This is very laughable," I exclaimed.
"You did not think so then. But let me try to bring it all back to you by
another question. Don't you remember her voice?"
"Most truly I do not. Why, what was the matter with her voice? Was it loud
and harsh, or was it squeaky? I cannot imagine anything very pleasant in
the way of a voice in such a wild and withered home as the moon would
make."
"True," answered the doctor, "as to the outside, but you forget our visit
to the interior.


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