A strange excitement filled her heart, a new feeling the little girl did not recognize...love.

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Leda feels the beating of the swan's heart, and that heart is "strange" to her, that simple, powerful word.

丽达感受到天鹅的心跳，而那心跳对她来说很陌生，陌生，是个简单给力的词。

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And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

躺于洁白的灯芯草丛，她的身体，怎能不感到卧倒处心的奇特跳动？

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