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theraire in particular and my itinerant lifestyle in general "

ButтАФEric, everybody knows what you're like "

Maybe she thought that when she moved in with me

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I'd change? She never came out and told me that butтАФ
maybe she thought I'd settle down. Get a job. Join the
Moose Lodge." He ducked behind the burlap curtain and
set the costume down in a stack of others. He turned
around just in time to catch Beth's sardonic expression
through the open door flap. "Well, go ahead, you might as
well say whatever it is you've got trying to beat its way
through your teeth."

"Do the words 'fat effin' chance' translate properly?" she
replied. "You've been a footloose street busker for as long
as I've known you, Banyon. You're a darlin' man," she
continued, slipping into her Faire dialect, "But I'd ne'er
be after chasin' ye if were ye the last stallion in all of
Eire. Jaysus, O'Banyon, but ye've got the wanderin' foot
an' the rovin' eye, ye do, an' I'd ne'er trust ye wi' a puir
maid's heart. Not t'mention the uither fairer portions of
meself..."

"Give me a break," he said, wincing a little. "I just like
my freedom."

"Yeah, and I just like to know where my man is once in
a while." But she took a closer look at him, and her
expression of irony softened to something a little like pity.
Not quiteтАФbut it was at least more sympathetic. She


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patted his hand. "Hey, c'mon, Eric, I'm sorry. You just
had a rather spectacular breakup. That was a stupid thing
to say. I didn't intend to make fun of you."

"It's okay," he said, only now beginning to feel anything
besides confusion and pure embarrassment. The full im-
pact of what had just happened started to hit him. Mau-
reen was gone.

Worse than that. Really gone this time. She'd never
walked out on an argument before. Not ever. He'd always