You are wonderful, superb!" He
smiled, showing the whitest and evenest teeth.
Such extravagant homage was embarrassing, yet no woman could be
wholly displeased by admiration so spontaneous and intense as that
which Longorio manifested in every look and word. It was plain to
Alaire that something about her had completely bowled him over;
perhaps it was her strange red hair and her white foreign face, or
perhaps something deeper, something behind all that. Sex phenomena
are strange and varied in their workings. Who can explain the
instant attraction or repulsion of certain types we meet? Why does
the turn of a head, a smile, a glance, move us to the depths? Why
does the touch of one stranger's hand thrill us, while another's
leaves us quite impassive? Whence springs that personal magnetism
which has the power to set the very atoms of our being into new
vibrations, like a highly charged electric current?
Alaire knew the susceptibility of Mexican men, and was immune to
ordinary flattery; yet there was something exciting about this
martial hero's complete captivation. To have charmed him to the
point of bewilderment was a unique triumph, and under his hungry
eyes she felt an adventurous thrill.
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