[Wild Youth Volume Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookWild Youth Volume Complete CHAPTER IX 17/39
"Look the other way," he said.
"Turn round, please.
I'll put him out of pain.
He bolted with you, and he'd have killed you, if he could; but that doesn't matter.
He can't be saved. Turn round, don't look this way." She had been commanded to do things all her life, first by her mother, tyrant-hearted and selfish, and then by her husband, an overlord, with a savage soul; and she had obeyed always, because she always seemed to be in the grasp of something against which no pressure could avail.
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