Word: chautel
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...quietus on any further flutterings of the heart. But not so. Although she takes very seriously, professionally, impersonally her job as music-hall dancer and she and her partner are on a mutually unaffectionate business basis she wants someone to love. When gawky, rich, but sincere Max Dufferein- Chautel presents himself, suffused with gawky and sincere emotion, at her dress-ing-room she is merely annoyed, brusquely kicks him out. He gets himself properly introduced, evinces impeccably respectable intentions, dogs her with his wistful and persistent hope. In spite of herself Renee begins to thaw...
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